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Postgame notes: "He's at the top" • 05.31.14
Masahiro Tanaka refuses to call himself the ace of the Yankees pitching staff, but with each start, his role becomes more and more obvious.
"He's at the top," Brian McCann said. "He's a top-of-the-rotation starter. He doesn't need to be (called) an ace here or an ace there. He just takes the ball every fifth day and continues to impress everybody around here."
Eight innings without an earned run today. He struck out nine and walked two. After giving up seven home runs in his first six starts, he's now gone five straight without a homer. He's pitched 11 times in the major leagues and already has eight wins.
"Wow," Yangervis Solarte said. "Perfect."
Maybe not quite perfect, but awfully close.
Tanaka is the first Yankees pitcher since 1913 — when earned runs became an official statistic — to go at least six innings with no more than three earned runs in each of his first 11 major-league starts. The only other pitcher in big league history to have such a stretch to start his career was Montreal's Steve Rogers, who did so in his first 16 games in 1973.
"Outstanding again today," Joe Girardi said.
Tanaka has been asked about feeling extra pressure because of all the rotation injuries. He's been asked about needing to do more while the offense is having such a hard time. He's been asked if he feels like an ace. Each time he's said no. He just goes about his business, does what he does, and the results speak for themselves.
"For the offense there's good times and there's bad times," Tanaka said. "But obviously for myself as a pitcher, what I'm basically trying to do is go out there and to get as many zeroes up as possible on the scoreboard."
• Most of the postgame conversation centered on the injuries to Mark Teixeira and Michael Pineda. I believe Girardi was asked one question about Tanaka and two questions about the eighth inning. The rest was mostly Teixeira with a little bit of Pineda.
• Speaking of which… Girardi said the team would "stay status quo for now and make judgments as time goes on" when it comes to filling Teixeira's hole at first base. Doesn't sound like he's expecting a player move, not even a call-up. The Yankees face right-handed pitchers the next two games — which seems to be the minimum Teixeira will miss — so I assume either Kelly Johnson or Brian McCann will handle first base. "We're a little inexperienced in that situation without him in there," Girardi said.
• And speaking of McCann, he had two doubles today. According to the Yankees, the last time he had two doubles in a game was — oddly enough — June 12, 2012 with the Braves at Yankee Stadium. McCann is hitting .325 in each of his nine home starts in the month of May.
• McCann on his go-ahead double in the eighth: "I got a slider out over the plate and was able to put the barrel on it, and got it down the line."
• It's been a slow two months at the plate for McCann, but he has six hits including three doubles in his past four games. "I feel like I need to get more hits," he said. "I just feel like I've been finding the barrel consistently. It's just I need to start hitting a little better. … Just got to continue putting the barrel on the ball. Eventually they'll start finding holes."
• That eighth-inning rally really got going when Jacoby Ellsbury singled, stole second and took third on a bad throw by the catcher. "We've seen that so much from him over the years," Girardi said. "He has the ability to steal bases at really important times. You look at, he did it against the Cardinals, and he does it again today and puts a lot of pressure on them. The catcher ends up rushing throw and ends up throwing it away, and that's the difference in the game."
• And of course there's Yangervis Solarte who went 3-for-4 and homered to tie the game in the fourth. Every time it seems this guy is going to crash back to earth and reveal himself to be little more than a role player, he seems to get hot again and keep his spot in the everyday lineup. "I feel so great," Solarte said. "Just keeping my approach. The last six games, I feel so bad, but I keep the same approach."
• With or without the eighth-inning rain delay, Tanaka was not planning to go back out for the ninth inning. That inning was going to belong to Dave Robertson no matter what. Robertson is now 12-for-13 in save opportunities this season and has 23 strikeouts in his past 9.1 innings. Mike Axisa from River Ave. Blues pointed out on Twitter that Robertson actually has a better strikeout rate than Dellin Betances.
• This was Derek Jeter's 13th multi-hit game of the season and he's hitting .321 in his past 13 games. He has a hit in each of his past five home games and is batting .417 in his past seven games at Yankee Stadium. Brett Gardner has also been good at home recently. He went 2-for-4 today and is hitting .405 in his past nine games at Yankee Stadium.
• Just a reminder that Phil Hughes has the start for Minnesota tomorrow (against Chase Whitley). Felix Hernandez is starting that Mariners makeup game at Yankee Stadium on Monday. He'll match up against David Phelps.
• Final word to Girardi: "You need to put hits together. We had a great opportunity the first inning and weren't able to get anything done. We had some other opportunities and weren't able to get anything done. But Mac gets a huge hit for us in the eighth, and we take advantage of that and ended up winning 3-1."
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Teixeira receives cortisone injection; Pineda shut down again • 05.31.14
When he sat out those three games in St. Louis, Mark Teixeira talked quite a bit about needing to be proactive. If his right wrist was bothering him, he said, he needed to speak up and not let a one-day injury turn into a three-or-four-day injury. Teixeira might not have followed his own advice today.
Teixeira got a cortisone injection and will miss at least another two games after soreness returned to his right wrist. Truth be told, Teixeira said, the wrist was sore before today's game started but he wanted to play through it.
"It wasn't really mid-game," Teixeira said. "It started from last night. I didn't really have that much relief. I got through it last night because I walked three times, really. I only took two or three swings all night. Today, I didn't feel really good this morning. I didn't feel good in BP. We thought maybe it would loosen up, but it didn't. I basically got back to square one, unfortunately, with the soreness."
Joe Girardi approached Teixeira on the bench after Teixeira's third-inning at-bat. Girardi could tell that Teixeira was swinging through pain, and Teixeira was given two options: he could come out of the game right away or he could keep playing defense until his turn in the lineup came around again. Teixeira stayed in the field until Brian Roberts pinch hit for him in the sixth inning.
"It's inflammation," Girardi said. "We've just got to knock it out. It's concerning in the short term. As far as the long term, I feel that he's going to be healthy. Right now he's got some inflammation and he's having a hard time knocking it out. … We'll go a few days here (without making a move). We won't rush to a judgment here. We'll go a few days here and see where he's at. Anticipating giving him Sunday and Monday off and see where he's at Tuesday. If we have to make a decision, we'll make a decision."
Players are basically told to get no more than two cortisone shots a year, and Teixeira said he expected he might need at least one to get through this season. He said that's why he didn't get an injection right away. The team wanted to see if rest could do the trick. Since it didn't, Teixeira got the injection.
"If the shot doesn't work," Teixeira said, "then I'm worried."
Here's how Girardi explained the Pineda situation:
"Michael Pineda on Friday played catch and didn't feel good," he said. "Not as sore as he was before, so we flew him back (and) he had an MRI this morning. He's got some inflammation still in that area and he'll be shut down for a little bit of time here and then we'll try to get him going again. It's not the news we wanted, but it's what we're dealing with."
Girardi didn't have a timetable for Pineda. It seemed he could be in minor league rehab games as early as next week, but obviously that won't happen now.
"I believe he'll get healthy and he'll be extremely productive for us," Girardi said. "But we've got to get him back. That's the thing. He's going to be shut down for a while, and then we'll try it again."
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Injury updates: Teixeira and Pineda • 05.31.14
Mark Teixeira will sit out tomorrow and Monday to see if a couple more days will knock out the inflammation in his wrist. Joe Girardi said there are no plans to make a roster move.
Michael Pineda will no longer make Sunday's scheduled start. He felt sore after playing catch yesterday and tests revealed inflammation in that same upper back area near his shoulder. He will be shut down again.
Offense finally comes through for another Tanaka win • 05.31.14
The Yankees had a clear pitching advantage. The trick was taking advantage of it. Masahiro Tanaka was terrific — of course — and after squandering early chances, the Yankees finally got the big hit they needed when Brian McCann connected on a game-winning, eighth-inning double for a 3-1 win against the Twins this afternoon at Yankee Stadium. Jacoby Ellsbury had singled, stolen second and taken third on an error, and McCann lined his game-winner just beyond the reach of Twins first baseman Chris Parmelee. It was McCann's second double of the game and the Yankees' fourth extra-base hit, matching their highest extra-base-hit total of the past two weeks. The Yankees would add an insurance run on an infield single for Dave Robertson finished off his 12th save.
Tanaka picked up his eighth win by allowing just one run on four hits through eight innings. He struck out nine. The key was getting some run support from the Yankees struggling lineup. Before the middle of the third inning, the Yankees had already hit into two double plays, committed two errors, and Tanaka had thrown two wild pitches. Five Yankees base runners had been wasted, and it was only key Tanaka strikeouts that kept an early 1-0 Twins lead from growing any larger. Even against the pitcher with the highest ERA in baseball — Kevin Correia literally ranked 100th out of 100 among pitchers with enough innings to qualify — the Yankees had real problems overcoming the tiny deficit. In the fourth inning, Yangervis Solarte hit a solo home run to tie the game, and it was only the Yankees fifth homer in their past 13 games. Solarte went 3-for-3 against Correia, and the Yankees totaled nine hits against him, but Correia allowed just one run through six innings. He'd allowed at least three runs in all but one other start this season.
The bad news: Mark Teixeira left the game with renewed soreness in his right wrist.
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Game 54: Yankees vs. Twins • 05.31.14
Brett Gardner LF
Derek Jeter DH
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Brian McCann C
Alfonso Soriano RF
Yangervis Solarte 2B
Kelly Johnson 3B
Brendan Ryan SS
RHP Masahiro Tanaka (7-1, 2.29)
Tanaka has never faced the Twins
Brian Dozier 2B
Eduardo Escobar SS
Joe Mauer DH
Josh Willingham LF
Oswaldo Arcia RF
Trevor Plouffe 3B
Chris Parmelee 1B
Josmil Pinto C
Aaron Hicks CF
RHP Kevin Correia (2-6, 6.34)
Correia vs. Yankees
TIME/TV: 1:05 p.m., YES Network and MLB Network
WEATHER: A few clouds in the sky, but it's tough to beat this weather. Feels really nice here at the ballpark. Wind blowing from left to right.
UMPIRES: HP Jim Wolf, 1B Brian Gorman, 2B David Rackley, 3B Tony Randazzo
DAY OWLS: The Yankees are 13-5 (.722) in day games this season, marking the second-best such winning percentage in the Majors behind San Francisco (15-5, .750). The Yankees are just 15-20 in night games in 2014. Over the last four seasons, the Yankees are a Major League-best 122-61 (.667) in day games.
AT THE BOTTOM: Of the 100 major league starters with enough innings to qualify — so far — for the ERA title, Twins starter Kevin Correia ranks No. 100 with a 6.34. No one else is over 6.00.
GOOD MATCHUP: Kelly Johnson is in the lineup today, and Joe Girardi said that's an attempt to take advantage of his swing in this stadium. Probably doesn't hurt that he's a career .321/.387/.893 hitter against Correia with five home runs in 28 at-bats.
UPDATE, 1:16 p.m.: Error, wild pitch, runner-advancing grounder and a two-out single. The Twins are up 1-0 with an unearned run in the first.
UPDATE, 1:23 p.m.: Just as everyone expected, Jeter doubles in his first at-bat. Runners at second and third with no outs for the heart of the order.
UPDATE, 1:36 p.m.: Oh man. Strikeout and double play. Yankees blew a bases-loaded, no-out opportunity against the guy with the worst ERA in baseball. That's brutal.
UPDATE, 1:58 p.m.: Through two innings, the Yankees have five base runners and two crushing double plays. Now they've started the third inning with their second error of the day.
UPDATE, 2:04 p.m.: Seriously, if things don't turn around, this could be one of the Yankees ugliest games of the year. Only the third inning and already we have two wasted scoring chances, two errors, two wild pitches, plus Teixeira misjudging how much time he had to decide whether to throw to second or settle for the out at first.
UPDATE, 2:07 p.m.: Tanaka gets out of the inning. He's very clearly the best thing the Yankees have right now.
UPDATE, 2:36 p.m.: No joke, the Yankees just hit a home run. Seriously. Solarte went deep. Game tied at 1.
UPDATE, 2:50 p.m.: Jeter gets a ball to the warning track. Second hard-hit ball of the day for him. He's 2-for-3 with a double.
UPDATE, 3:02 p.m.: Nice job by Teixeira, Ryan and Tanaka on the 3-6-1 double play, and nice job by Ellsbury tracking down the fly ball to deep left center. Still tied at 1 heading into the bottom of the sixth.
UPDATE, 3:04 p.m.: Well that can't be good news. Teixeira is out, Roberts is in. By the way, Roberts had been on deck at the end of the fifth inning, but Teixeira stayed in the game then. He's out now. Kinda weird.
UPDATE, 3:15 p.m.: Pretty similar to last night's Jeter base running mistake, Solarte clearly expected McCann to be going home and took off for second, where he was easily out stretching. Solarte is 3-for-3 at the plate, so he's got that going for him.
UPDATE, 3:55 p.m.: Ellsbury stole his way into scoring position, and McCann came through with his second double of the game. It's now a 2-1 Yankees lead in the eighth, but the tarp just came on the field for what might be a short rain delay.
Pregame notes: "You try to run a set lineup out there" • 05.31.14
The Yankees have gone through a power outage lately, and it just so happens that two of their regular bench players are primarily power hitters.
Infielder Kelly Johnson and outfielder Zoilo Almonte haven't played much, but the greatest asset for each one is an ability to hit for power. It seems little coincidence that Johnson is in the lineup this afternoon.
"You think about using Kelly maybe more here than sometimes on the road," Girardi said. "Because the ballpark plays to him, and that's one of the reasons he's in there today. His at-bats have kind of gotten going a bit, and I want to keep him going. We're in a really long stretch here, 17 days in a row, and a bunch of day games in a row here, and (we will) try to take advantage of it."
As for a regular lineup change to try to take advantage of Almonte's ability to hit the ball out of the park, that might not be in the cards just yet. Girardi has a tendency to stick with his guys, and Brett Gardner, Jacoby Ellsbury and Ichiro Suzuki have been the regular outfielders (a trio that has very little power) while Alfonso Soriano has basically rotated between right field and designated hitter (a legitimate power hitter, but with a .359 slugging percentage against right handers this year). Johnson had fallen behind both Brian Roberts and Yangervis Solarte on the infield depth chart, but we'll see if that changes if Johnson can string together some productive games during this home stand.
"Sometimes you have to do some things (to shake up the lineup) just because of the way your players are, the way the schedule is," Girardi said. "You try to run a set lineup out there every day, and we've had our five or six guys we run out there every day, six or seven. And you have the injury to Carlos which kind of changed things a little bit, so we've had to adapt a little bit there. We had the injury to Tex, which changed things a bit and we had to adapt there. You'd like to run out about seven or eight of the same guys every day."
• Shawn Kelley said he feels fine today — he threw a bullpen yesterday — and he's still on track to throw another bullpen tomorrow. Yesterday was his first bullpen since that day he couldn't get loose in Milwaukee. Seems like a rehab assignment is possible next week, assuming he comes through tomorrow with no problem.
• Carlos Beltran hit again today and he's scheduled to hit again tomorrow. "We'll make some decisions from there if that all goes OK," Girardi said. The Yankees haven't announced a plan for Beltran, but kind of like Kelley, it wouldn't seem surprising to see him getting into minor league games at some point next week.
• Also, Michael Pineda is scheduled to pitch an intrasquad game tomorrow.
• Girardi said he did not check with mark Teixeira before posting today's lineup, but he was planning to check with him whenever Teixeira got to the ballpark. "He came to us on Monday (to say his wrist was hurting)," Girardi said. "So I trust that if he feels he's not a player, he'll come to me."
• On whether Teixeira has to be managed more carefully going forward: "There's probably going to be soreness in 92 percent of my players during the course of a game," Girardi said. "Soreness is one thing. Being injured is another. I think you have to check in with all the guys, and when it becomes too much they're going to sit down. Players don't play feeling 100 percent every day. It's not the nature of the game. … I check with guys every day to see how they're feeling. I just don't want to make too much of this. If we feel he needs a day off, then we'll give him a day off. If he says he's OK, then we're going to play him."
• Just a personal observation: Girardi seems to be irritated by the questions about the ways to properly manage Teixeira's playing time. Can't help wondering if that has something to do with Teixeira basically saying — more than once this season — that he's played too much, which has caused his fatigue and soreness issues. It's surely on both Girardi and Teixeira to make sure this wrist issue, or any other, doesn't get out of hand and force a three-day shutdown like Teixeira experienced this week.
• Can't forget to mention, Happy Tanaka Day. Where would the Yankees be without him? "Well, we wouldn't be in probably as good of shape as we're in," Girardi said. "His pitching has been extremely consistent, we've won his games and he has a number of wins — I think it's seven or eight. It's hard to say. He's been a guy that has given us distance and has given us a little bit of time off when he takes it. It's not just distance, it's good distance where he leaves the game usually with a lead and we're able to finish out the games."
• You know how sometimes you're writing pregame blog notes and scroll through your iTunes library only to randomly land on the Creedence album Green River? Man, I love when that happens. Such a great album.
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Jeter at DH, Johnson at third • 05.31.14
Brett Gardner LF
Derek Jeter DH
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Brian McCann C
Alfonso Soriano RF
Yangervis Solarte 2B
Kelly Johnson 3B
Brendan Ryan SS
RHP Masahiro Tanaka
Tanaka on limiting home runs: "I haven't differed the approach" • 05.31.14
From one team to another, one league to another, one country to another — Masahiro Tanaka has been a master of adjustments in his first big league season. And it seems surely he's made yet another in the past three weeks.
Tanaka allowed seven home runs in his first six starts this season.
In his past four starts, he's allowed none.
So what has Tanaka changed this time? What's this latest adjustment? Tanaka answered the question with a one-word answer that his interpreter translated instantly.
"Nothing," he said.
When reporters started laughing, Tanaka did as well.
"Honestly, no joking," he said. "I'm pitching the way I want to pitch. … Just basically trying to do what I've always been doing. I haven't differed the approach from those games that I gave up home runs to the past four games."
Those past four games have each been on the road, so maybe that's part of it. Three have been against National League teams, which could be part of it as well. Could also be that Tanaka's getting better. One specific adjustment or not, lately he's improved the one thing that seemed a bit troubling through those early starts.
"Obviously, yes. I'm getting used to (pitching here)," he said. "I think I've gotten used to it from the first game to the second game, the second game to the third game, the third game to the fourth game. It's really hard to say exactly when I've really gotten used to it, but each game I've gotten more used to the baseball here."
Up next is this afternoon's start against the Twins, who happen to be — other than last night — one of the worst home-run-hitting teams in the American League.
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Postgame notes: "Have to score some different ways" • 05.30.14
Carlos Beltran is still on the disabled list, Mark Teixeira just came back from his second injury of the year, Alfonso Soriano was on the bench tonight and hasn't hit against right-handers, and Brian McCann's .370 slugging percentage is more than 100 points lower than his career slugging percentage heading into this season.
Little wonder, then, that the Yankees haven't hit for much power lately. May 17 is a convenient landmark — that's the day they hit five home runs in a game — and since then, the Yankees have hit just four homers in 12 games. They've averaged 1.5 extra-base hits in that span. Tonight they had two. Last game they had one. The game before that, they were shutout. And the game before that they had nothing but singles and walks.
"This is not a lineup that's filled with a ton of power," Joe Girardi said. "So we're going to have to put hits together and hit doubles and steal some bases and do some things like that. We do have guys who can hit the ball out of the ballpark, but I don't necessarily think you have a lot of guys in your lineup who are going to hit 25 to 30 (home runs). I don't think that, so we're going to have to score some different ways."
Asked about the lack of power, Girardi quickly brought up a few seasons ago when he was asked several times whether the Yankees were too reliant on the home run. If this season is an elaborate attempt to prove the value of the long ball, it seems an extreme way to make that point. Vidal Nuno wasn't great tonight, but despite the three home runs he allowed, he still gave the Yankees a start that would have been winable had the bullpen not allowed some insurance runs and the lineup not failed to take advantage of the 11 base runners Ricky Nolasco allowed.
"There's a lot of ways to score runs," Brett Gardner said. "But when you don't hit balls over the fence, you have to find ways to manufacture runs, and we didn't do the job like that tonight."
How to boost the offense going forward? Maybe Zoilo Almonte could provide some power against right-handers? Maybe Kelly Johnson could get some more at-bats in some capacity? Maybe McCann and Soriano can become more productive, Beltran can get healthy, and Teixeira can stay on the field?
The Yankees just managed a winning record during a tough road trip, but tonight they came home and blew it against what should have been an inferior opponent.
"I think you just keep swinging," Derek Jeter said. "That's pretty much all you can do. It's a situation I think most teams go through throughout the course of the year. Sometimes it seems like hitting is contagious, and sometimes the flip side can be contagious as well. You just come back tomorrow and hopefully we can start swinging the bats a little bit better and scoring some runs. It's obviously a lot easier on the pitching staff if we score."
• A quick CC Sabathia update: He did see Dr. Chris Ahmad today, and Girardi said that indications are that Sabathia's knee has improved, but he's still not close to baseball activities. In fact, he's just now scheduled to "start some more movement," which Girardi said basically means fancy treadmills and such. "He hasn't played catch or thrown a bullpen, so he's still a ways away," Girardi said.
• All seemed fine with Teixeira's first game following four days off. He walked three times, so it's not like he was swinging away very often. "He looked OK to me," Girardi said. "We'll see how he feels tomorrow. We'll make a judgment on what we're going to do tomorrow. It looked like they didn't give him much to hit, and he was patient and did what he was supposed to do."
• After the top of the fourth, I was fully prepared to write a story all about Vidal Nuno's struggles, but he yet again gave the Yankees a decent enough start, and this time he nearly pitched through the seventh. He has a 5.48 ERA, but his past three starts have been two earned runs through six innings, three earned runs through seven innings, and tonight's four earned through 6.2 innings. That's basically fifth-starter material. Hasn't been able to carry a game, but in most of his outings he's given the Yankees a chance.
• What happened on the home runs? "Just fastballs up, and I cannot be doing that," Nuno said. "… These are big-league hitters, so pretty much if they connect with the fastball, it could go a long way or it could be a quick out. But today, I left them a little bit up and they took advantage of it."
• Nuno ended the Yankees streak of 14 games in which their starters allowed three earned runs or less. That was their longest such stretch since a 15-game streak in 2009.
• Nuno tried his career-high for pitches thrown (101) while he also matched his home run's allowed total from his previous five starts.
• Twins starter Nolasco came into this game with the second-worst ERA among qualified pitchers in the American League. The only pitcher worse than Nolasco? Kevin Correia, who's starting tomorrow's game for the Twins.
• What happened on the play in the fifth when Gardner was held up at third base and Jeter rounded too far past first? "It's my job in that situation, if you think there's a play at the plate, you've got to go and try to go to second base to trade an out for a run," Jeter explained. "Gardy wasn't going, so it's not my job to think what's going to happen. I've got to make sure he's going. Good play by them, but I assumed he was going. I shouldn't assume."
• The play obviously didn't work out, but Gardner said Rob Thomson made the right decision to hold him at third. "I saw the replay and I would have been out by a good bit," Gardner said. "He has a real good arm and the throw was right on the money."
• That "real good arm" belongs to right fielder Oswaldo Arcia, who made two good throws to the plate, each one ultimately resulting in an out. He also had two hits including a home run. He has a seven-game hitting streak. "He had a big part (in) the game for sure," Girardi said.
• Gardner is hitting .394 with two homers and nine RBI in his past eight games at Yankee Stadium. Overall he's hitting .345 at home this year. Gardner had a hit, a walk and two stolen bases tonight.
• The Yankees have lost three straight against the Twins for the first time since August 19, 1998 to May 4, 1999. They have lost three straight home games against the Twins for the first time since 1992.
• Final word to Jeter: "It's always a grind. Like I always tell you guys, it seems like throughout the course of the year we always have these little streaks. Every team has these streaks when you're not doing what you would like to do. All you can do is keep battling. That's about it. For the most part I think we've been playing all right, but there's always room for improvement and scoring runs is one of them."
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Powerless: Yankees lose one to the slumping Twins • 05.30.14
Hard to say which the Yankees need most, a new starting pitcher or a new power hitter. They could have used both tonight in a 6-1 loss to the slumping Twins, who had lost six of seven. The Twins lineup had the third-fewest home runs and their starting pitcher had the second-worst ERA in the American League, yet the Twins homered three times in the first four innings while the Yankees were held to two extra-base hits after getting just one in their previous game. Yankees starter Vidal Nuno finished with a vaguely winnable pitching line — four earned runs with no walks through 6.2 innings — but he also put the Yankees in an early hole by giving up a solo home run in the second inning and a pair of home runs in the fourth. The Yankees meanwhile let Ricky Nolasco off the hook for his four walks and seven hits allowed. Jacoby Ellsbury's RBI double was the Yankees only extra-base hit before the ninth inning, and whether they tested or did not test right fielder Oswaldo Arcia's arm, the Yankees were always wrong. Brett Gardner was held up in the fifth inning, and he wound up tagged out after a pair of run downs. Brian Roberts was sent home in the sixth inning, and he was thrown out at the plate.
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Question: | I'm curious about the origin and distribution of the use of ''stay'' in AAVE/BEV where SAE uses ''live'', as in ''I stay at aunt's house'' or ''My family stays in Detroit''. This is standard usage among Detroit blacks, but I'm curious about: -- Is it mostly limited to black/POC or urban communities? -- Is it in usage outside of Detroit and if so, where else? -- Are there any opinions about its origin? Googled conversations and Urban Dictionary seem to be of the opinion that it relates to the relative transience of the urban black population, but I'm not convinced. Thanks for any information. |
Reply: | This is a very late reply (my apologies). To answer your question, the verb "stay" meaning 'to live' is a documented feature of AAVE. It is specifically mentioned in Lisa J. Green's "African-American English: A Linguistic Introduction" (a book I recommend to anyone interested in AAVE). According to one her notes, "stay" is used in other locations such as New York City. P.S. I would also recommend "African American English" by Mufweme, Rickford, Bailey and Balogh. Both books are in paperback at Amazon. The price is over $45 for a new copy (cheap for academia), but can also be found cheaper in used versions or Kindle. |
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School stabbing note: What did Alex Hribal say? (+video)
School stabbing note: Three days before a stabbing rampage at his high school, Alex Hribal wrote an angry note about the "precious lives" he would take.
Pittsburgh, Penn.
The 16-year-old boy who stabbed 21 people at his Pennsylvania high school was charged on Friday with as many counts of attempted homicide, as court documents revealed his note describing the "helpless looks" he hoped to see on his victims' faces.
The April 6 note was quoted in an affidavit filed at the second arraignment of Alex Hribal, who previously faced four charges of attempted homicide for his stabbing spree on April 9 at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville near Pittsburgh.
"I can't wait to see the priceless and helpless looks on the faces of the students of one of the 'best schools in Pennsylvania' (when they) realize their precious lives are going to be taken by the only one among them that isn't a plebeian," the note said, according to the affidavit obtained by Reuters.
Hribal signed and dated the note three days before he turned on his classmates with two 8-inch steel kitchen knives, wounding 20 students and a security guard, the affidavit said. The rest of the note was not made public.
Patrick Thomassey, a lawyer for Hribal, who has previously said the sophomore student was "remorseful" after the attack, did not respond to Reuters requests for comment on Friday.
But Thomassey told the CBS Pittsburgh affiliate that bullying may be the motive behind the attack.
Judge Charles Conway denied bail.
Hribal, who has been charged as an adult on all counts, appeared on video live from a juvenile detention center at the arraignment at a Westmoreland County court. He was first arraigned on April 9, and is also facing 21 charges of aggravated assault and one charge of possessing a weapon on school property.
The affidavit also described how Samuel King, the school's vice principal, grabbed Hribal from behind as students fled the hallways in panic during the attack.
Hribal refused to let go of the knives, according to King, saying: "No, I am not dropping them, my work is not done, I have more people to kill."
Two teenaged boys stabbed by Hribal were still being treated at Forbes Regional Hospital in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, on Friday, one in a "critical but stable" condition, a hospital spokesman said.
(Writing by Jonathan Allen; Editing by Richard Chang)


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94The 1997 Grange (a blend of 96% Shiraz and 4% Cabernet Sauvignon) looks to be a classic Grange, although slightly softer and more forward than the backward 1996. The saturated purple-colored 1997 offers a gorgeously sweet nose of blackberry liqueur, cherries, camphor, chocolate, plums, and mocha. The wine is opulently-textured, extremely soft, layered, and seductive, with Grange's tell-tale personality well-displayed, but in a seamless, seductive style. This is a superb Grange that can hold its own against the more heralded 1996. Robert Parker, Oct 2002 |
Penfolds: The Importance
Leading Australian critic James Halliday rates Penfolds as a five star winery, noting: "There is no other single winery brand in the New, or the Old, World with the depth and breadth of Penfolds." At his inaugural Australian Wine Companion Awards in 2014, Halliday named Penfolds the Winery of the Year. Jancis Robinson calls them "Australia's most established maker of investment quality red wine" and their wines have reminded James Suckling of "great pre-phylloxera Bordeaux of 1864 and 1865."
Popularity in Asia increased when the Penfolds Collection was launched in Shangai in 2015, the first time these wines had been unveiled outwith Australia. In 2016, Penfolds was awarded the World's Most Admired Wine Brand title from Drinks International. Compiled by more than 200 Masters of Wine, sommeliers, teachers and journalists, topping this list shows the global dominance the brand has achieved.
The Langton's Classification, established by the auction house in 1988 and considered to be the honour roll of Australian fine wine, defines an unbiased and proven benchmark of the country's top wines by ranking them based on how well they perform in the open market, the demand they attract and the price they realise across at least ten years. The sixth amendment of the classification, ranks Penfolds Grange and Penfolds Bin 707 as Exceptional (the highest accolade), Yattarna Chardonnay, Bin 389 and RWT Shiraz as Outstanding (considered Australia's super seconds) and Bin 128, Kalimna Bin 28, Bin 407 and Magill Estate Shiraz as Excellent (the "heart of the secondary wine market"). No other winery has as many wines in the classification.
Penfolds: The Insight
Penfolds produce a wide range of wines across all price points. However, the most important wines for collectors are their top reds. These wines are often cross-regional blends. As Jancis Robinson puts it, Penfolds is: "one of the few wine companies in the world producing internationally famous wines that are not terroir-specific." This makes them somewhat less vintage dependent and assures consistently reliable quality.
The star is Grange, probably Australia's greatest wine, described as an icon by James Suckling. At time of writing, the wine scores an enormous 970 points on Wine Lister and is described as "one of the most talked about wines by the fine wine trade." It is always listed first in the Langton's Classification due to its status, while the others are listed merely in alphabetical order. The founder of Langton's, Andrew Caillard MW calls it: "an iconic wine; a reference example" and Langton's states that "the best vintages have a lifespan of 50 years and more." For those looking for a slightly lower-priced alternative, Bin 389 is often considered 'Baby Grange'.
All of the Penfolds range featured in the Langton's Classification, the increasingly popular St Henri Shiraz and the wines their original wooden cases (OWC), are all worthy of serious consideration. The bins are numbered after where the wines sat in the winery, rather than denoting a quality level. RWT stands for Red Winemaking Trial, the RWT being a Shiraz purely from Barossa in contrast to the multi-regional sourcing for Grange.
Penfolds wines are so long-lived that in 1991 the company launched Re-corking Clinics. These give owners of wines that are 15 years old or older an opportunity to have their wine: "assessed by a winemaker, and if necessary, opened, tasted, topped up and re-capsuled on the spot." Leading auction houses Christie's and Langton's have noted higher auction realisations for wines re-corked by Penfolds.
Penfolds: The Background
Founded in 1844, Penfolds has grown to become one of Australia's most famous exports. Christopher Rawson Penfold and his wife Mary arrived in Australia from West Sussex. They settled in the Magill Estate and built a cottage called The Grange. They started producing fortified wines, but the popularity of claret-style wines grew and by 1903 Penfolds was the biggest winery in Adelaide and beginning to expand into McLaren Vale and New South Wales. After World War II, winemaker Max Schubert travelled to Europe and was inspired by the wines of Bordeaux to create Grange Hermitage, later to become Grange. Now, the winery is situated in the Barossa Valley, but the grapes come from all over South Australia. Penfolds' vinyards are located in Adelaide (the Magill Estate focuses on Shiraz), Kalimna, Koonunga, Waltons and Stonwell vineyards in Barossa (predominantly Shiraz and Canbernet Sauvigon), Eden Valley for the whites, McLaren Vale and Coonawarra. Peter Gago has been the Chief Winemaker since 2002, providing further consistency.
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- Disney's Magic Kingdom prices are going up
- Multi-day passes decrease per-day prices
- Visitors will also see increases at Epcot and other parks
Heading to Disney's Magic Kingdom Park for your next vacation?
It'll cost you.
The most expensive theme park at Walt Disney World Resort just got a little pricier. Starting February 23, visitors ages 10 and up will pay $99 for one-day tickets to the Magic Kingdom, a $4 increase.
Prices for one-day tickets at Epcot, Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios also increased $4, from $90 to $94. Many visitors to the Disney parks purchase multi-day passes, which can decrease the daily cost of visiting the parks.
"Our pricing reflects the high quality and breadth of experiences we offer and our ongoing commitment to investing in our parks," said Kim Prunty, Walt Disney World spokeswoman, via e-mail. "We offer a variety of ticket options that provide a great value, and find that most guests select multi-day tickets that offer additional savings."
The Walt Disney Co. reported company revenues of $12.3 billion for the quarter ending December 28, 2013, a 9% increase from the same quarter in 2012. Of that $12.3 billion in revenues, $3.6 billion came from its parks and resorts. Parks and resorts revenues saw a 6% increase from the same quarter in 2012.
"Prices were raised less than a year ago, but for WDW (Walt Disney Resort) it's all about supply and demand," writes Deb Wills, editor-in-chief of AllEars.net, an unofficial Disney planning and fan site. "Attendance is going up, not down; so as long as people keep paying the prices, Disney (any business) will keep raising them."
CNN first learned of the price increase from a Tampa Bay Times Tweet.
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"Caillou in the Garden"
Blueberry Point: It's Grandpa's birthday! In an effort to keep Grandpa away from the house (for a surprise party), Caillou takes Grandpa for a walk on Blueberry Point. Caillou wants to surprise his grandfather with a basket of blueberries as a gift.and he's disappointed when he only finds a handful of berries. D
12:00 pm
Thomas & Friends
"All Together Now"
Ol' Wheezy Wobbles - On Misty Island, Ol' Wheezy has stopped working. Thomas wants to help and says he can fix Ol' Wheezy. He puffs to the Dieselworks, and asks Den and Dart for help because two busy boilers are better than one. D
12:30 pm
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood
"Daniel Gets Mad/Katerina Gets Mad"
Daniel Gets Mad - Daniel Tiger and Prince Wednesday are looking forward to playing at the beach. Then it starts to rain and Mom Tiger says they can't go outside, which makes them very mad. After Mom Tiger helps the boys deal with their mad feelings and they're calm, they come up with a grr-ific plan to make a beach - indoors! Katerina Gets Mad - It's New Instrument Day at Music Man Stan's Music Shop. D
1:00 pm
Curious George
"George and Allie's Lawn Service/Curious George's Scavenger Hunt"
George and Allie's Lawn Service - George and Allie are crazy about Mr. Renkins' new kids -- baby goats named Suzy and Sammy. But when the goats keep escaping their pen and chewing on everything in sight, can George and Allie find a way to keep their new friends penned up? Curious George's Scavenger Hunt - It's a race around the city as George, Marco, and Chef Pisghetti go on a shape-finding scavenger hunt to raise money for the animal shelter. They find rectangles, stars, and circles, but how are they ever going to find 100 diamonds?. D
1:30 pm
Martha Speaks
"Puppy Skits/Dinosaurs In Trouble!"
Puppy Skits - Can a dog break through the space-time continuum? T.D. thinks so. As Martha recounts the tale of how T.D. D
2:00 pm
Peg + Cat
"The Parade Problem/The Halloween Problem"
The Parade Problem - Park. Peg and Cat need to sort out recyclables to clean up the park in time for the nursery school's Halloween Parade. Primary Content: Sorting; Secondary Content: Estimating. D
2:30 pm
"A Better Mousetrap: Part 1/A Better Mousetrap: Part 2"
A Better Mousetrap: Part 1 - On the latest episode of "Getting the Scoop with Scoops," Scoops interviews WordGirl, reminiscing about her victorious adventures defeating Dr. Two Brains. Humiliated and worried about his villainous reputation, Dr. Two Brains hijacks the television studio with a Goop Ray to give WordGirl her final interview. A Better Mousetrap: Part 2 - In an attempt to maintain his dignity, Dr. Two Brains' takes over Scoops' talk show. D
3:00 pm
Wild Kratts
"Attack of the Tree Eating Aliens"
The Wild Kratts get an urgent call from a group of North American Wild Kratts kids telling them almost all of the trees in the forest are dying. It's a race against time to solve the mystery and help the forest and the creatures who live there. D
3:30 pm
"Team Spirit"
Interest is lagging in the annual Mount Olympus Games, attendance is sagging, and Zeus is not happy. How can he restore the spirit of competition? With lightning bolt speed, he pits Team Motherboard, coached by Digit, against Team Hacker, coached by Wicked, The teams have to compete in the Triadditon, a relay-type race made up of an obstacle course, a swim race, and a foot race where each competitor does one event and tags their teammate to do the next. Bragging rights and hero worship go to the winners. D
4:00 pm
Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman
"How Not to Impress A Poodle's Mother"
Sam, Harsha and DJ work on sand sculpture at the beach while Jay learns about hair and beauty at a salon. D
4:30 pm
"D.W., Queen of the Comeback/In My Africa"
D.W., Queen of the Comeback - The Tibbles tease, D.W. D
5:00 pm
"A Better Mousetrap: Part 1/A Better Mousetrap: Part 2"
A Better Mousetrap: Part 1 - On the latest episode of "Getting the Scoop with Scoops," Scoops interviews WordGirl, reminiscing about her victorious adventures defeating Dr. Two Brains. Humiliated and worried about his villainous reputation, Dr. Two Brains hijacks the television studio with a Goop Ray to give WordGirl her final interview. A Better Mousetrap: Part 2 - In an attempt to maintain his dignity, Dr. Two Brains' takes over Scoops' talk show. D
5:30 pm
Nightly Business Report
Tonight on Nightly Business Report, fewer jobs were created in January than expected. So why are some experts saying the report is actually better than it seems? And, our Market Monitor guest tonight is recommending stocks with big potential for growth. D
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PBS NewsHour
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Washington Week
7:30 pm
"Richard Russo"
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist talks with host Marcia Franklin.G
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Idaho Reports 2014
Co-hosts Melissa Davlin and Aaron Kunz are joined weekly by political analysts Betsy Russell and Jim Weatherby along with other news professionals, legislators and state officials to help provide a firsthand account of the week's events at the Idaho Legislature.G
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American Masters
"Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth"
Filmmakers trace the life of the author of The Color Purple from her birth in rural Georgia as a sharecropper's daughter through the violent racism and seismic social changes of the mid-20th century and the civil rights movement, to the present as she celebrates her 70th birthday.G
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"Listening Is An Act of Love: A Storycorps Special"
This first-ever animated special from StoryCorps celebrates the transformative power of listening.G
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Charlie Rose


text: These retrofuturistic magazine covers sat in the background of Blade RunnerLauren Davis5/26/12 1:30pmFiled to: Blade RunnerTom SouthwellMagazinesMagazine CoversRidley ScottConcept ArtRetro futureMoviestweetFbTop341EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Ridley Scott's incredible attention to detail in Blade Runner stretched all the way to the newsstands sitting in the background. He asked concept artist Tom Southwell to create these magazine covers for his dystopian Los Angeles. Advertisement These covers actually appear in the film, sitting on a newsstand during one of the movie's street scenes. I might read Dorgon if it was a real magazine, although I suspect I might hate myself a little afterward.Fictional Magazine Covers from Blade Runner [Science Fiction Tumblr via Super Electric via Ruben Bolling] Reply34 repliesLeave a reply


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Hair today, gone tomorrow!
On Saturday, John Mayer joined Mindy Kaling to celebrate her new show, The Mindy Project, at the SkyBar at the Mondrian Los Angeles.
Just days after splitting from Katy Perry, the Grammy winner debuted a new hairstyle. Mayer, 34, who had been sporting long, shoulder-length locks, traded his unruly hair for a shorter, neater look.
RELATED: Katy Perry Throws Birthday Bash for Pal in L.A.
Mayer got the cut on Friday afternoon at the Sally Hershberger salon in L.A. by Sally herself. Right after he got the new do, Mayer – sporting a red T-shirt – headed off in his Range Rover, and took a moment to check out his new look in his side-view mirror, according to an observer.
The singer-songwriter – who has long accessorized his mane with floppy hats – grew out his hair during his two-year hiatus from the spotlight.
During the event Saturday, Mayer mingled with Kaling's The Office costars, including B.J. Novak.
Despite the recent split, Mayer's social life hasn't suffered. On Thursday, was spotted out at Soho House in West Hollywood where he was seen sipping a Moscow mule and "flirting and talking" with two women, according to an observer.


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KBR, the government contracting firm formerly under Halliburton, did not keep accurate records of gasoline distribution, put its employees in living spaces that may be larger than warranted and served meals that appeared to cost $4.5 million more than necessary under a contract to perform work in Iraq, according to an audit by a government oversight agency.The report, to be released today by the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, addresses a sliver of a $22.5 billion contract that KBR won to provide services for the U.S. military. The inspector general's office focused on four services that KBR was paid to provide in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone: supplying gasoline, food services, and housing and various morale and recreation services.The inspector general faulted the U.S. government for not closely monitoring KBR. As a result, the report said, "KBR's operations may have resulted in excessive government costs and high risk that government resources could have been used improperly."Both the State Department and the Defense Contract Management Agency, two oversight bodies, disputed the notion that oversight was inadequate.The inspector general said that despite both improper procedures and record-keeping, KBR provided adequate fuel, food and housing. A KBR spokeswoman said in an e-mail that the company had not seen the audit and that "it would be inappropriate for us to comment at this time."The inspector general and other audit agencies have pointed out previous shortcomings of KBR and the government in overseeing the logistics contract. In November 2004, KBR didn't provide details of the costs it spent on a contract. In October, the inspector general's office criticized KBR for labeling costs, labor rates and internal processes as proprietary information when it was needed to ensure competition and oversight.As part of its contract, KBR provides gas for vehicles and generators in the Green Zone. In today's report, auditors wrote, "we found weaknesses in KBR's fuel receiving, distributing and accountability processes of such magnitude that we were unable to determine an accurate measurement of the fuel services provided."KBR didn't use "totalizers," an internal meter in gas pumps that tracks how much fuel is used, according to the report. The contractor used "homemade gauge sticks" to figure out how much fuel was in storage tanks and kept insufficient records of how much fuel was coming in and out, the report said.The fuel database kept by KBR also revealed flaws. More fuel had been sent out than generators could hold. When auditors looked at the database in September 2006, it showed that 12,622 liters had been issued for December 2006 -- "a future date and an obvious impossibility," the audit said.KBR managed its housing at its Camp Hope inside the Green Zone, resulting in most of its employees living in more spacious quarters than those they support, according to the report. Ninety percent of KBR employees were assigned to trailer spaces without roommates, meaning KBR employees appeared to have better housing than Army captains.KBR also did not keep accurate records of when people moved in and out of trailers, making it difficult to figure out what housing was being used.The inspector general's office found that contractual language was vague as to who could control KBR's housing and said "we found no fault with KBR's actions.""We found a number of problems in reviewing both procedures and records with respect to accountability of food, fuel and billeting," said Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the inspector general. "But the good news is the government and KBR have aggressively responded in the course of the audit to address these problems."During Bowen's audit, the Defense Contract Management Agency appointed 18 contracting officer's technical representatives. The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad also said that it wouldn't allow backpacks and large bags into dining halls to keep people from taking extra food.The DCMA said the inspector general had a "misunderstanding" of the housing requirements and that the agency had taken "immediate action . . . to resolve the cited deficiencies" in the fuel service.Bowen said his office will look at the other services that KBR was to provide in the Green Zone under the $243 million task order. He would not say whether he was concerned about other KBR services. "I can't speak to those yet," he said. He expects to release another report on those services in October.
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I am interested in encoding my PHP script, but I don't know what is the best program to use.
Does anyone know of a comparison between [ionCube and [url=http://sourceguardian.com/]SourceGuardian](http://www.ioncube.com/index.php)? I would like to know the practical differences between them.
All I know, from an "end-user" standpoint, is:
ionCube actually compiles your code, and makes it a lot faster to run, and makes it impossible to edit.
SourceGuardian makes your code harder for an average Joe to edit, that's about it.
SourceGuardian also has the ability to encrypt your code, just like ionCube.
Thant's why i'm trying to get a comparison.. because they seem to do the same thing...
Why are you trying to go against nature and close the source for php code?
What are you trying to hide?
Bad code?
I'm trying to hide the many many many many hours of sweat blood and tears I've put into building my application. I do NOT want someone to simply rip me off and start selling MY application as their own..
And yes, this has happened over a dozen times so far in 1 year.
If you don't have anything to say that is related to the thread starting post then please don't bother posting. I do not wish to debade the issue of open -vs- closed code.
I do NOT want someone to simply rip me off and start selling MY application as their own ionCube requires your php files to be uploaded in BINARY format.. which would really confuse my customers who's ftp program would of course default to ascii. (My product is designed for newbie web designers, etc..)ionCube requires a "loader" file, which is platform dependant. This would create a problem for my customers who may or may not know what "platform" they are using.
I do NOT want someone to simply rip me off and start selling MY application as their own
ionCube requires your php files to be uploaded in BINARY format.. which would really confuse my customers who's ftp program would of course default to ascii. (My product is designed for newbie web designers, etc..)ionCube requires a "loader" file, which is platform dependant. This would create a problem for my customers who may or may not know what "platform" they are using.
Whilst I don't doubt the validity and sentiments of your last post, these seem to be very contradictory statements - how does someone that knows nothing rip you off?
Welcome to the world of forums (although given the number of SP arrows you have you should be well conversant with such things happening).
I do not wish to debade the issue of open -vs- closed code.
Nor do I -- But if I wanted to, where would I find this debate? I see no mention of any debates on this thread.
Sheesh, that's once per month. I'm assuming that you write massive amounts of php, and also spends massive amounts of time pouring through all of the newest php apps, right?
siteguru - My original post stated may or may not know.... this indicates that not every one of my customers knows anything. I am not worried about "normal" customers... I'm worried about the php-savvy people who think they can simply steal someone's application and sell it as their own.
Gybbyl - Yes, I happen to be a php programmer, and I do write massive amounts of php. I also happen to sell 5 different applications I've written over the years. With sales of approx. 10-20 licenses per day, I am rightly concerned about theft of my work. (And therefore my living!)
If you made clay pots for a living, and someone was stealing a few out of your workshop every day, or worse, stealing your customized designs... and then selling them as their own.... wouldn't you also try to figure out how best to "protect" your work?
The way I understand it... if there ARE ways to protect yourself, then why not take advantage of them. Yes, I believe in helping others, and open-source, and whatever.... but I am trying to make my living from selling my software, and I don't appreciate people stealing from my CHILDREN!
well it looks as that both offer free trials....
but by the readings on the front page of each site i would go with SourceGuardian Pro.
That'll prove especially helpful if you have time based licenses like some products. 1 year you can encode it to expire after a year, blah, blah, blah....
btw what do you make? (software)
I make two different online WYSIWYG editor programs, two download/subscription managers, and I just released an article management application.
I am sick and tired of people stealing my software, and am really looking for opinions from users of either ionCube or SourceGuardian.
From the website, I think sourceguardian is "better" (has a better website), but I've seen a number of apps recently that use ionCube.
I've tried emailing the application authors for opinions, but they ignore me! Grrrrrr.
[rant]Sheesh! Everyone just stfu pleeze! He has the right to encrypt his own scripts if he wishes! Its his scripts he can do what he wants them. All this useless posting wasting precious bandwith and nobodys botherd to answer his question![/rant]
Mate im going to keep it plain and simple, dont use SourceGuardian. It can be decrypted very easily. Zend is probably best, but out of the two you provided, definitly go for ioncube!
Btw SourceGuardian is an ok solution to stopping the ordinary joe blogg from distributing your script to a few mates, but to stop people from stealing your source, i would definitly stay away from it!
1) How do you know SourceGuardian can be easily decrypted?
2) Are you a user of ionCube? How do your customers find it? My experience is that it is difficult to "install".. (required users to FTP php files in binary, which many don't know how to change default upload type... and they also don't know how to find/install the .so file needed for whatever is their OS.) ANy thoughts?
1) I have seen SourceGuardian files decripted, and also have the ability to do so
2) No i am not a user, this is one of the disadvantages of using ioncode, the host must have the Loader on the server for your script to work. So if your customer has a host without the loader, they may come running to you for a refund, this is why zend is better as more hosts have the zend loader
Have you looked into using Turke MMCache. It is an accelerator/encoder/caching engine for PHP.
It is also FREE! I am planning to load it and use it instead of Ioncube's Accelerator.
Both Ioncube and Turke can run encoded files through the use of a loader which can be easily added to php environments through the php.ini file.
On shared environments, it would depend on whether local php.ini overrides are allowed through .htaccess.
I haven't looked into how secure or protected the encoded files are yet but if you are really worried about your code just use the free php source code obfuscator. Taking the time to unobfuscate code is time consuming and not worth the effort, especially if there are lots of files.
Or you can do both if you are really paranoid.
That looks very interesting, but from what I understand it requires access to the server not given to common shared hosting account?
Yes jb2 that is exactly right. Very few customers will have access to the hosts root, therefore they will not be able to install these themselves. Using lesser known programes like Turke is a sure way to lose customers.
If you are making $$ and want to contribute then whats wrong with Zend Encoder ? Nobody knows PHP better , nobody is more likely to guarentee backwards compatibility and no host has an excuse not to have the Zend Optimizer available.
It may be a little dearer in the short term , but despite thier awful attempts at IDE's Zend do have php encoding down pat and do provide very good support IME.
If Zend had got the pricing right for the Encoder in the first place we probably would not be having this discussion though
and yes you should be free to encode anything you wish.
How about Turck MMCache?
It's an open-source encoder/optimizer for both Windows and *Nix systems. I've installed it on both mine and my housemates PC's and although I don't notice a massive speed difference (frankly on a 2Ghz CPU system with 1Gb of RAM over a LAN you'd need to have pretty sharp eyes to pick out speed differences) it does have some pretty cool features.
For instance, the decoder binary for encoded scripts can be used seperate from the actual optimizer, and dynamically loaded at runtime via dl().
Heres the contents from an example MMcache encoded file:
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"Game of Thrones" found some new musical guests for Season 4: Sigur Ros. The band is said to be involved in the upcoming season of the HBO series, but it's unclear whether the bandmates will be making appearances as characters in the show or instead will be recording a song for the upcoming season.
There have been precedents for both in previous "Game of Thrones" seasons. Bands like The National and The Hold Steady have recorded songs for Seasons 2 and 3 respectively ("The Rains of Castamere" and "The Bear and the Maiden Fair"), so it would make sense to have a third band come in and record a track for Season 4.
But at the same time, band members from Snow Patrol and Coldplay have also played characters in the show (Gary Lightbody played one of Roose Bolton's soldiers in Season 3, and Will Champion played one of the members of the band playing "The Rains of Castamere" at the Red Wedding).
Entertainment Weekly reports that Sigur Ros' Jon Por "Jonsi" Birgisson, Georg Holm and Orri Pall Dyrason are all shooting an appearance at "Game of Thrones'" Croatia set. Whether they end up recording a song for Season 4 or not , it sounds like we'll at least be seeing them in the upcoming season.
Also new in "Game of Thrones" Season 4 are Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Mace Tyrell, Pedro Pascal as Oberyn Martell, Mark Gatiss as Tycho Nestoris, Indira Varma as Ellaria Sand, and Joseph Gatt in an undisclosed role. Meanwhile, Michiel Huisman has joined the cast to reportedly replace Ed Skrein as Daario Naharis and Hafthor Julius Bjornsson will now play Ser Gregor Clegane, aka the Mountain.
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Review: Cut down your typing with Auto Text Expander
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If you were to analyze what you typed on a daily or weekly basis, how much of that would be the same repetitive stuff? How much would be the same pro-forma email replies, the same email signature, the same address and phone number, the same email sign-offs (Best Regards, Bye for Now, etc) and so on? Auto Text Expander is a neat little $30 program (free 200-snippet demo) that uses macros to help you quickly enter your most commonly typed texts through abbreviations.
All you have to do is type out the pre-determined abbreviation (such as snip5*) and Auto Text Expander will replace "snip5*" (or whatever the abbreviation is) with the extended text.
All of this takes mere milliseconds, so as soon as you type out your abbreviation, the extended text is already there. It seriously cuts down on the time you would normally take to type something. The only catch is that you have to first memorize the abbreviations and then get into the habit of actually using them. If you are someone with bad habits, breaking those habits could prove difficult. I only have to look at myself in the mirror to know that is true.
When you open up Auto Text Expander for the first time, you will see some already prepared snippets on the left hand side, including a plain text email template, an HTML email signature and entering the current date and time into a document. You can use or edit any of these snippets or you can make your own.
To make one of your own, just click "new snippet" and give it a title (for the purposes of this article, let's call it TEST). Next, decide the abbreviation. The abbreviation should be something that you wouldn't normally type in everyday emails and documents. So the word TEST for example wouldn't be a good idea, because every time you type TEST, the program will kick in and replace your text for you.
So something like t*est or tes_t would be better; inserting a character that normally wouldn't be there will spare you this trouble. You can also specify whether or not the abbreviation should be case sensitive, and whether or not the snippet will be plain text or formatted text.
In the main window, type out the full extended text which you want inserted when you type out the abbreviation. Add formatting and images if you want that too. You can also insert commands that pull in the date and time and the current contents of the clipboard.
Once you start building up a lot of time saving snippets, you can back them up in ATE's own custom format and then restore them back into ATE in the event of a program reinstall. This of course should be done regularly.
According to the developer, a new version is being worked on which will have a database of common user abbreviations for different industries such as the medical and the legal industries. So this software is actively being improved all the time.
If you are someone who does a lot of repetitive typing, this is definitely one piece of software to check out. The price is rather high for something which is essentially a macro, but the free demo should allow you to evaluate it: it allows for up to 200 executions. If you own a typing-intensive business, where time is money, you may want to consider getting this to cut down on typing time.
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WE HAVE a currency note of Rs. 20 and not of Rs. 25. Likewise, the unit-size should be 20 and 200 gms instead of 25 gms and 250 gms. Unit of 125 gms is not only irrational but is also close to the fixed unit of 100 gms, which can lead to mistakes or misuse during measurement.
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Fake 'Democrat' Comes Forward In Wisconsin Recalls
The key here is that recalls are now tentatively scheduled for July 12, under the state election officials' proposed timelines, targeting six Republicans. If there were only one Democrat against each one Republican, then the July 12 date would immediately be held as the general election. But if there were additional Democrats, the July 12 date would then become the primary, giving the incumbents more time to campaign for a general election in August.
Also, thanks to Wisconsin's open primary system in which anybody can vote in a party primary, it would force the Democrats to spend time, money and resources campaigning for their own nominations.
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Put this on your blogroll: a salad of Dada and psychedelia with sperm dressing
Ryan McKinley's Dash Bombing (2000) In this week's New York Magazine, there's a 6500-plus-words profile about elusive ex-graf-writer-cum-come-artist Dash Snow. Snow is also a founding member of the semi-legendary Irak crew, a close-knit group of NY "derels" (that's derelicts to you) that included Whitney-featured photographer Ryan McGinley, artist Dan Colen, and Ace Boon Kunle (tag name= Earsnot). In the last nine years, IRAK has become known not only for obsessively bombing downtown and the kind of deftly successful kleptomania that'd make Winona Ryder jealous, but also for getting more creatively fucked-up than Pete Doherty. For example:
- "Colen and Snow went to London together this fall for the Saatchi show in which they both had work. (Saatchi had bought one of Colen's sculptures for $500,000.) Saatchi got them a fancy hotel room on Piccadilly. They had to flee it in the middle of the night with their suitcases before it was discovered that they'd created one of their Hamster's Nests, which they've done quite a few times before. To make a Hamster's Nest, Snow and Colen shred up 30 to 50 phone books, yank around all the blankets and drapes, turn on the taps, take off their clothes, and do drugs—mushrooms, coke, ecstasy—until they feel like hamsters."
Top five other things about the piece:
1. Rawer than bombing trains: "Snow and Irak crew were always pissing people off. They used to pay bums to let them tag their backs."
2. This sentence: "Snow's work, for instance, is regularly trashed for being slapdash: a salad of Dada and psychedelia with sperm dressing."
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RoboCop Appears to be Thawing – Will he get free in time?
Caught in a wicked storm RoboCop had frozen solid within the ice. Now he could feel the sun and his energy was recharging. Soon he will break free to wreak justice on the not so innocent…His prayers have been answered. Little does he know another storm is already fast approaching which could prolong his confinement!!
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These two weeks have been all about "reflections," visual and otherwise. The days when the sun hides are particularly good for turning the colors of what's around me on Rocky Neck into an imaginary world on the surface of the water.
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Aaron P. Schaefer age 42, of Fairview, passed away Thursday, October 17, 2013 as a result of an automobile accident.
He was born in Erie on May 13, 1971 the son of Geraldine "Geri" Mezzacapo of Fairview and the late Dennis L. Schaefer who passed away in August of this year.
Aaron graduated from Fairview High School and went on to serve in the United States Marine Corp.
He worked for many years at his father's business Denny's Auto Wrecking.
Aaron enjoyed fishing, water sports, playing dominos and darts and loved all of his pets. He loved spending time with his friends who meant the world to him.
In addition to his father, he was preceded in death by an infant brother Bryan.
In addition to his mother he is survived by a daughter, Nadine Schaefer, a cousin who was like a brother to him, Brian Mezzacapo and several aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews.
Friends may call at the Burton Westlake Funeral Home 3801 W. 26th Street on Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. until the time of sharing at 8:00p.m. Military Honors will be observed.


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Autologous Bone Marrow Stem Cell Transfer in Patients With Chronical Critical Limb Ischemia and Diabetic Foot
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A total of 90 patients suffering from end stage-IV Fontaine /CLI and diabetic foot with an ulcerated limb in whom all previous therapeutic strategies failed (e.g. surgical revascularization) will be selected and undergo local transplantation of ABMSCs. The efficacy/safety of this therapy will be assessed by using several endpoints such as (a) prevention of amputation, (b) wound healing and (c) degree of angiogenesis. In order to assess the limb ischemia and hypoxia the several tests and measurements will be performed pre- and post transplantation at a variety of time intervals. The measurements include: TP-toe pressure measurements (by Periflux 5000 Laser Doppler and Oxymetry system), SPP-skin perfusion pressure, ABI-ankle brachial index, LDP-laser Doppler baseline and heat perfusion assessment, TcpO2 without and with O2 provocation inhalation test. In addition, a battery of biochemical and hematological tests of peripheral venous blood sample will be performed.The quality form "EQ-50" will be completed.
8.1 Primary objective: To evaluate an efficacy-safety profile of autologous bone marrow stem cells (ABMSCs) transplantated into chronically and critically ischemic limb (CLI) and into diabetic foot in stage IV Fontaine, Rutherfod 4-6 classification.
8.2 Secondary objectives: 8.2.1 To assess effect of ABMSCs on tissue perfusion of ischemic limb after transplantation by transcutaneous oximetry and the laser Doppler flowmetry using Periflux 5000 system under normal and provocation test conditions. In addition, wound healing of ulcers will be evaluated using a planimetry method from photographs of affected skin taken pre- and post-transplantation.
8.2.2 Relationship between CD 34 progenitor counts separated on gradient-density separation centrifuge from Harvest Technologies and overall effectiveness and safety to treat ischemic limb.
8.3 Priorities: Beside assessment of effectiveness and safety of ABMSCs transplantation ultimate emphasis will be put on avoiding limb amputation. This has significant socioeconomic impact. Therefore this project belongs to the priority programs of clinical research in cardiovascular diseases.
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Critical Limb Ischemia |
Procedure: BMAC application in Critical Limb Ischemia |
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Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Autologous Bone Marrow Stem Cell Transfer in Patients With Chronical Critical Limb Ischemia and Diabetic Foot |
- Major limb amputation [ Time Frame: 120 days ]The measure is the number of major limb amputations within 120 days from the procedure.
- Tissue perfusion measurements [ Time Frame: 120 days ]Measurements of circulatory and blood parameters by laser Doppler flowmetry (TCPO2, TCPCO2, ankle-brachial index - ABI, toe-pressure-TP, toe-brachial index-TBI, skin-persusion pressure-SPP. Peripheral blood tests - white blood cell counts, differention counts, fibrinogen CRP and platelet counts. Bone marrow concentrate analysis to assess the number of CD34 progenitor cells, PQ-50 quality of life questionnaire. Follow-up angiogrwaphy at 120 postoperative days, wound healing measurements.
Enrollment: | 96 |
Study Start Date: | October 2008 |
Study Completion Date: | December 2010 |
Primary Completion Date: | November 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
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Experimental: BMAC treatment active group
Collection of 240ml from both illiac crests, followed by gradient density centrifugation, resulting in obtaining 40ml of BMAC. This ammount is applied by one ml per injection into the critical limb ischemia along the calf vessels.
Procedure: BMAC application in Critical Limb Ischemia
Collection of 240ml from both illiac crests, followed by gradient density centrifugation, resulting in obtaining 40ml of BMAC (Bone-Marrow Aspiration Concentrate). BMAC is subsequently administered into the ischemic limb along calf vessels.
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Standard treatment group of patients with CLI after surgical or interventional revascularisation will serve as control.
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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- patients suffering from chronic and critical limb ischemia according to the TASC classification Rutherford 4-6, Fontaine IV,
- with failed basic conservative and revascularization treatment (surgical or endovascular),
- with age over 18 years,
- with signed informed consent for this procedure,
- without acute CLI that would require early limb amputation.
Exclusion Criteria:
- patients with estimated survival less than 6 months,
- with known bone marrow diseases,
- with the final stage of renal failure and dialysed,
- with acute stage of severe limb ischemia with severe inflammatory process affecting patient`s life which require limb amputation to avert deterioration in clinical condition and death.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01232673
Principal Investigator: | Vaclav Prochazka, MD, PhD | University Hospital Ostrava |
Responsible Party: | University Hospital Ostrava |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01232673 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
FNO-99/OVZ/08/006-Dot |
Study First Received: | November 1, 2010 |
Last Updated: | March 21, 2013 |
Keywords provided by University Hospital Ostrava:
Critical Limb Ischemia Bone-Marrow Aspiration Concentrate Diabetes Mellitus Major Amputation |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Ischemia Diabetic Foot Pathologic Processes Diabetic Angiopathies Vascular Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases Foot Ulcer |
Leg Ulcer Skin Ulcer Skin Diseases Diabetes Complications Diabetes Mellitus Endocrine System Diseases Diabetic Neuropathies |
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LEXINGTON – March loves Cinderellas and underdogs. But not always.
A game like this is why we watch the NCAA Tournament. Marquette looks like a goner for sure, but suddenly the day is saved, and we see the happy faces of survival.
Here in the Davidson locker room is the other cruel side, in all its stunned silence. Kids sit with their heads in their hands, their hearts ripped out. Seldom do you see the basketball gods gang up on a team the way it did on these guys Thursday afternoon.
On one chair, a senior guard named Nik Cochran.
"The good thing about college basketball is, you always have a second chance, right? But we have four seniors and this was our last game . . .We all bleed and sweat and cry for it. So it's really tough."
On another chair, a junior forward named De'Mon Brooks, describing the locker room of the stricken.
"Pretty much quiet. No words really. We're grown men, and we can't speak."
Standing outside is the coach who has given a lifetime to basketball, and is getting fried by Twitter analysts for what happened.
"Forty years,'' Bob McKillop says. "And I'll never forget this moment."'
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You've probably heard how it ended. How Davidson, a No. 14 seed, had an upset fully in hand; the type that charm the masses so. How the Wildcats led Marquette by nine points with 6:26 to go, by seven with 1:49 to go, by four with 20 seconds to go.
And how the final score was Marquette 59, Davidson 58.
Fate had to hustle to pull this off.
Marquette, a notoriously awful outside shooting team and 1-for-12 in three-point attempts the first 38:57, had to suddenly bury three 3-pointers with hands in the face the last 63 seconds. "Every team we've played knows we can't shoot," coach Buzz Williams had said the day before. "We understand that we can't shoot."
Davidson, implacable all day, had to make one fatal turnover with six seconds left. Brooks had hoped to beat the Marquette press with a sideline pass to Cochran, but barely led him too far. One more step, Cochran gets to it, the game's over.
The officials had to huddle at the scorer's table to decide how much time was left after the turnover. That gave Williams, out of timeouts, a minute to call his team together and plan the last play.
UPSETS: The close calls that could have changed history
Marquette having no timeouts is why McKillop elected not to use one of his own, a decision that brought the thunder from critics.
And Marquette still had to score, Vander Blue barely beating a screened Jake Cohen to the basket for the winner.
``We missed by a step,'' McKillop says. ``We missed by a fingertip.''
Marquette guard talks about furious rally to beat Davidson.
They would have cherished this for the rest of their lives. No wonder the pizza sat untouched in the Davidson locker room
"I just saw Nic open. If I make that right pass. If I even hold the ball, the game is ours," Brooks says. "We had it for 39 minutes and 45 seconds, but the game of basketball is 40 minutes.
"I feel an emptiness in my stomach."
And what of the coach?
"You had a full glass when you were there with 20 seconds to go, and all of a sudden that glass is empty 20 seconds later," McKillop says. "The highs and the lows are just extraordinary.
"'I'm pretty disciplined about understanding things. I understand this. It doesn't make it easier or more explicable. But I understand these things happen and the pain I feel is for these guys. We chased dreams together and we were inches away from continuing that magic carpet ride.
"And it ended."
Someone brings up any second guessing, as many will do, though how would a Davidson timeout have stopped well-defended 3's from going in, or prevented a rushed pass against the press?
"I'll certainly second guess a lot of things. I'll second guess should we have played zone that last play. I'll second guess if I should have called timeout after they made the 3."
That's March. Smiles and another day to play for some, a sucker punch and everlasting questions for others.


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1, 1000mw High-Power solution provides long range wireless signal transmission 2, AR9341 high performance Chip, support Openwrt system 3, IEEE 802.11b/g/n compliant with 300Mbps high-speed data rat ...Keyword : Outdoor 1000mW High Power 300Mbps Wireless AP | 1000mW High Power 300Mbps Wireless AP | High Power 300Mbps Wireless AP | 300Mbps Wireless AP | wireless AP/CPE
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Compatible with IEEE 802.11n IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.3 and IEEE 802.3u protocol. Adopt the latest IEEE802.11n technology and the newest high-performance build-in antenna. The wireless ra ...Keyword : 3G WIFI AP Router | MINI 3G WIFI AP Router
Frequency range UMTS/ HSDPA/ HSUPA:2100MHz; GSM/ GPRS/ EDGE850/900/1800/1900MHz Qualcomm Chipset Data transfer rate: Up to 7.2Mbps Down Load, Up to 5.76Mbps Up Load Bus interface: Micro USB Memory ...Keyword : 3G WiFi AP Route | 3G WiFi Route | 3G Route | WiFi Route
Mini 150Mbps ap 3G router Chipset: Ralink 5350 Peak throughput: 150Mbps Antenna: Built-in omni directional antenna 4M Flash, 32M RAM ‧Compatible with UMTS/HSPA/EVDO USB mo ...Keyword : 3g router | wireless router | router
Category: Transmitter
300Mbps Thinnest hexagon design In-Ceiling ap, wireless ap, Indoor ap COMFAST CF-E325N Features: COMFAST CF-E325N In-Ceiling ap / wireless ap / Indoor ap adopt IEEE802.11n protocol wireless acces ...Keyword : In-Ceiling AP | wireless AP | Indoor AP
Place of Origin Guangdong, China (Mainland) Brand Name AVP OEM Model Number 3G150SHhhb Interface 1mini USB port ,1USB 2.0 port,WAN/LAN interchangeable port Chipset Ralink wireless Speed 150M ...Keyword : 3g wifi router with external antenna | power bank 3g wifi router | portable 3g wifi router
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Category: Wireless LAN Products
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Category: Wire and Wireless Communication Equipment and Parts
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EP-2908 is a 150Mbps wireless devices,based on the latest IEEE802.11n standard, provide up to 150Mbps wireless rate, more than three times as much as ordinary 802.11g products, and is compatible wit ...Keyword : mini wifi router | mifi router | wireless portable mini wifi router | wireless router
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Category: Wireless Communication Equipment
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