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Barnes leaves Rox for birth of second child
By Thomas Harding / MLB.com
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Rockies outfielder Brandon Barnes left the club on Monday to be with his wife, Shawn, for the birth of the couple's second child.
Tatum May Barnes, who checked in at 7-pounds, 3-ounces, was born at 5:43 p.m. MT. The couple also has another daughter, Kenadie.
Barnes, 27, obtained from the Astros in an offseason trade, is batting .340 with a .365 on-base percentage, one home run, three doubles and three RBIs this spring. Barnes and non-roster outfielder Tim Wheeler were named on Sunday as co-winners of the Abby Greer Award for Spring Training excellence.
Lopez working out of 'pen with spring in step
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Rockies relief pitcher Wilton Lopez is having a strong Spring Training with a 1.86 ERA, but that's not unusual. He has a 1.83 career spring ERA in 50 appearances since 2008. But after a rough 2013, his first in a Rockies uniform, what's important is he believes he can maintain his spring form when the real season starts.
The Rockies acquired Lopez during the winter of 2012 in a trade with the Astros, where he had been the closer, believing his power could work in a setup role. But Lopez struggled with the consistency of his delivery, and the dealt with the stress of his father's illness and death in Nicaragua. Lopez received praise from manager Walt Weiss for always making himself available, and he pitched in a team-leading 75 games, but the numbers were subpar -- 3-4 with a 4.06 ERA.
With a clearer mind and settled into being with the Rockies, Lopez appears to have corrected a delivery flaw that robbed him of downward action on his sinker. This spring, he has seven strikeouts against no walks, and has induced 1.63 groundouts for every out in the air.
Lopez said reminders from pitching coach Jim Wright to stay on balance as he begins his delivery, which means Lopez doesn't tilt back as he lifts his left leg, have helped.
"I can see that my two-seamer is going down, and I'm doing what Jimmy tells me to do," Lopez said in Spanish as catcher Wilin Rosario served as translator. "This year, I feel that I've improved."
Lopez went into last year as primary right-handed setup man, but righty Chad Bettis has been excellent this spring and has the power arm that fits late in games. Lopez, Bettis and LaTroy Hawkins, who was signed as closer but on occasion will be setup man for lefty Rex Brothers, could give the Rockies many power options late in games.
Wright likes that Lopez seems in a much better place.
"He's got much better sink and his changeup is going straight down, and it's tied into his delivery," Wright said. "He's been pitch-efficient. He's had the kind of outings we want to see out of him."
Last season, there were some hot periods but also extended slumps. Lopez will have to prove he can adjust quickly when something falls out of kilter.
"Jimmy tells me when I'm good and when I'm bad, when I do something that does not work, but right now I feel I can control myself and make a good adjustment," Lopez said.
Morales solidifying claim to spot in rotation
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Left-hander Franklin Morales found his way back to the Rockies through a confluence of needs. But through hard work and study, Morales just might have found his way back to the starting rotation after the better part of five years in the bullpen.
Morales broke in as a starter with the Rockies in 2007, was converted to relief in '09 and pitched primarily in relief after the club traded him to the Red Sox for cash considerations in '11. But the Red Sox sent him back to Colorado, along with reliever Chris Martin, during the winter for infielder Jonathan Herrera.
Morales, 27, received a chance at the steady rotation job he has always wanted, and Monday's five strong innings in an 8-2 victory over the Royals moved him closer to it. Morales struck out seven, gave up three hits, a walk and an unearned run. He threw four-seam and two-seam fastballs where he wanted, and baffled hitters from both sides of the plate with his cutter and curveball. He has a 2.21 spring ERA.
"I had all my pitches together, I mixed it up," Morales said. "I don't think about it. I don't want to put too much pressure on me. I'm going to pitch my game and make my pitches. Wilin [Rosario, the catcher] called a good game. I have good communication with him and we mixed it up, both sides of the plate."
Morales told his agent before the trade he'd like a chance to start again, and it so happened the Rockies made the deal and were willing to give him the chance -- knowing he could also go to the bullpen. Morales is competing with righty Jordan Lyles, who has a 3.18 ERA in six appearances and will throw again Saturday against the Mariners in the final Spring Training game. Morales also is on the roster for that day.
Morales pitched in his native Venezuela during the winter to further develop his pitch repertoire.
"In Venezuela with Jesus Hernandez, my pitching coach, I worked on my tempo to throw my pitches in any count, and I learned my cutter from Gary Tuck, my pitching coach from Boston from two years ago," Morales said. "Last year, I put it in the game and this year I went to Venezuela to winter ball and I used it more to get confidence. Before I threw the cutter backdoor, now I use it on both sides."
Manager Walt Weiss is dealing with a myriad of roster decisions. Putting Morales in the rotation could open a spot for one of the deserving relievers. But if Boone Logan has to begin the year on the disabled list for a few days as his left elbow completes its recovery from offseason surgery to remove bone chips and shave a bone spur, the Rockies will have to decide if they're comfortable with Rex Brothers as their only left-hander.
But Morales' performance is speaking loudly.
"In some of these decisions, it's not always just player-to-player, who won. We've got to take into consideration design of the club and how the pieces fit, but he's made a case for himself," Weiss said. "He wanted to come in and compete for a spot, and he's performed.
"He made pitches [Monday] to get outs. Even at times when he may have missed his location, he'd get right back in the count by making a pitch. It never got away from him."
Winning remains main thing for Tulowitzki
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- During his first at-bat on Monday against the Royals, Troy Tulowitzki reminded Rockies fans why they should be glad ownership didn't take a trade offer from the Cardinals during the winter.
Tulowitzki pulled a Jeremy Guthrie pitch over the left-field fence for his third home run this spring. Tulowitzki has hit 154 homers since his rookie year of 2007 -- most of any shortstop in the Majors -- and is one of six shortstops in history with at least four seasons of 25 or more homers. Despite missing 25 games with a broken rib last year, he hit 25.
Talks with the Cardinals were rumored all winter, so it was no surprise during the weekend when FOX Sports reported that the Rockies turned down an offer of right-handed pitcher Shelby Miller, first baseman Matt Adams and shortstop Pete Kozma for Tulowitzki. The Rockies have not commented on the report.
During the winter, Tulowitzki followed it all.
"I wasn't aware of any offer that was talked about, but I know there was some interest from the Cardinals, but things didn't work out, obviously," Tulowitzki said. "I'm a baseball fan, so I do read the paper and I know what's going on in the world. But I don't put too much thought into, 'What if this thing goes down?' If it happens, it happens, and if not then I'm in this locker room trying to win games for the Rockies right now. That trade talk doesn't do much. It's just rumors."
Tulowitzki is owed $134 million through 2020, but realizes he could be on the move if the Rockies don't start winning. Tulowitzki also wants to win. So there's one way to stop the rumors.
"Since Day One, the most important thing for me has been winning," Tulowitzki said. "I got a taste of it early in my career [a World Series trip in 2007, playoffs in 2009] and it was a lot of fun. I've been a part of some losing seasons now, and no matter how you come out of it individually, it's worth nothing because I've had so much more fun in those years we've won."
Tulowitzki has always been honest, and at times outspoken, about what he feels the club needs and its direction, even if it's uncomfortable at times for the club. He explained that it's not because he believes his paycheck makes him something more than a player. It's just burning desire for a result.
"Money is not what drives me -- it's winning, and guys get paid because they want to keep guys on those winning teams," Tulowitzki said. "I'm a very opinionated person, there's no doubt about that.
"That's just the way I am. But I'd rather go out trying to help things and not be that silent guy in the corner of the room not saying anything. Hopefully people listen."
Rockies facing some tough roster decisions
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Corey Dickerson started the final week of Spring Training by making a big impression, delivering a double and a stolen base, and making a leaping catch against the center-field wall for the Rockies in an 8-2 victory over the Royals on Monday.
Charlie Culberson went 1-for-2 and played a solid game at second base as he tries to close in on a backup infield job. Tommy Kahnle, a right-handed reliever who came from the Yankees in the Rule 5 Draft, had his first two-inning appearance and threw scoreless innings with two strikeouts to lower his spring ERA to 0.93. And don't forget Ryan Wheeler, who homered in the eighth for his eighth extra-base hit this spring as he tries to forge a spot for himself as a corner infielder and late-game left-handed bat.
In other words, decisions are getting tough.
Does Dickerson get the job as a left-handed hitting center fielder, which would send Charlie Blackmon (0-for-3 Monday to drop his average to .229) to the Minors -- even though Blackmon has more big league experience and better numbers? Did right-handed-hitting outfielder Brandon Barnes, who was overlooked coming into camp but has played his way into what looks like a sure roster spot, play himself into starting opportunities even though the Rockies have the more experienced Drew Stubbs?
Culberson (.279), Wheeler (.353), Josh Rutledge (.303) and non-roster invitee Paul Janish (.429) all have attributes that could put them on the team, but it appears there are only two backup infield spots. Janish also could end up being picked up by another team with a 25-man roster hole and not so many candidates.
Kahnle's case is most vital, since if he isn't kept on the 25-man roster all year he has to be offered back to the Yankees for $25,000. If lefty Franklin Morales makes the rotation -- and his five innings with seven strikeouts and one unearned run on Monday help his cause in a competition with righty Jordan Lyles -- will there be a spot for Kahnle in the bullpen? Even then, does lefty Boone Logan, who is coming off an elbow cleanup operation, have to start on the disabled list for there to be room for Kahnle?
Is it overall spring performance, or does a manager avoid being fooled by a spring and go by track record? Is it playing the hot hand at the end of spring? How much of the decision is based on Minor League options, which allow teams to hold onto players they can call up later?
"We look at the season with the bigger-picture perspective," manager Walt Weiss said. "It's not like who we break camp with, that's how it is for the rest of the season. We make these decisions understanding there's going to be an evolution of the roster. Needs are going to change. The design of the club is going to change from time to time."
Worth noting
• Logan threw a 15-pitch inning in a Minor League game on Monday and "all reports were good," Weiss said. Logan is pitching in the Minors because if the Rockies don't deem him ready when the season starts, they can back-date his 15-day DL placement to the day after he last threw in a Cactus League game. If Logan doesn't appear in another Major League game this spring, he will be eligible to pitch for the Rockies on April 5.
• Jhoulys Chacin threw all fastballs during a 30-pitch bullpen session on Sunday and had no complications. It was his first bullpen session since he arrived at Spring Training unable to throw off the mound because of shoulder pain. He's not expected to return until the middle of April at the earliest, but the Rockies have said it could be the middle of May.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Noah Glass is the Twitter co-founder you've never heard of.
He was pushed out of the company way back in 2006.
Before that he was the co-founder of a startup called Odeo. He had an investor who would become co-founder and CEO, Ev Williams.
Odeo was supposed to be a podcasting platform. But then Apple launched iTunes and everyone at Odeo panicked.
Williams told everyone: come up with something for us to do next!
Along with Jack Dorsey and a developer named Florian Webber, Glass pitched something called Twitter. Glass came up with the name. Williams liked it enough to put Glass in charge. The product became Glass' obsession. He told Williams he wanted to spin it out of Odeo as its own company.
But by the summer of 2006, Williams was tired of Odeo. He bought it – and its assets, including Twitter – back from Odeo investors. He renamed the company Obvious. Then he fired Noah Glass.
We tell this untold version of Twitter's history in greater detail in a story you can read by clicking here.
Writing that story, we managed to finally get a hold of Glass, who had not updated his Twitter, YouTube, or blog accounts in almost two years. Friends thought he had moved to Alaska and dropped out of life.
The conversation we had with Glass touched on what it feels like to be left out of history, how hard it is to be "betrayed" by your friends, and whether Ev Williams lied to Odeo investors about Twitter's numbers. It went like this …
BUSINESS INSIDER: Tell me if I'm wrong. It seems like you are the Twitter co-founder that no one talks about. Is that it?
NOAH GLASS: Well, yeah. That's true.
I was not in the story, which in some ways was difficult to deal with in the beginning, since it was a massive labor of love and a massive labor to get it created. To create the thing, to bring it into the world. It was a ton of effort and a ton of energy.
To not be included in the story was hard to swallow at first, but when I realized what was happening to the product, this thing I helped create, the thing's not about me. The thing's about itself. Twitter is a phenomenon and a massively beneficial tool and it's incredibly useful and it helps a lot of people. I realized the story's not about me. That's okay.
BI: Tell me a little bit about the beginning of 2006 and how this thing got going.
NG: [Odeo] was in turmoil, honestly. Investors were not really happy with what was going on. Ev, who was CEO, was not really happy with the company with growth and the direction it was going. We were sort of looking for something else. We were looking for a backup plan. We had a certain amount of money and we had a team in place. We just started experimenting with stuff.
I was looking at stuff like how people were communicating on MySpace and other social networking things and seeing how people were trying to communicate and seeing how systems weren't really designed to do what people were doing with them. But people were trying to communicate in a certain kind of way. Non-synchronous. Non-realtime communication. Almost like building on the blogging idea.
Jack [Dorsey] was someone who was one of the stars of the company and I got the impression he was unhappy with what he was working on. He was doing a lot of cleanup work on Odeo. He and I had become pretty close friends and were spending time together.
He started talking to me about this idea of status and how he was really interested in status. He developed this bicycle messenger status system in the past. I was trying to figure out what it was he found compelling about it. At the same time, we were looking at 'groups' models and how groups were formed and put a couple things together to look at this idea of status and to look at this idea of grouping and it sort of hit me — the idea for this product. This thing that would be called Twitter, what it would look like. This ad hoc grouping mechanism with non-realtime status updates all based on mobile phones.
There was a moment when I was sitting with Jack and I said, "Oh, I do see how this could really come together to make something really compelling." We were sitting on Mission St. in the car in the rain. We were going out and I was dropping him off and having this conversation. There was a moment where it all fit together for me.
We went back to Odeo and put together a team. A very separate working team, mostly it was myself, Jack, and Florian [Webber], a contractor. [Florian] was working from Germany at the time. Have you talked to Florian at all?
BI: I've tried to reach him but he's difficult to reach.
NG: I haven't spoken with him in 5 years. He has his own ideas about how life works. He's an amazing guy and a major part of it also.
That's a thing I want to reiterate — you're trying to look for the full story. Some people have gotten credit, some people haven't. The reality is it was a group effort. There were lots of people putting ideas into and it couldn't have been done without this group of people. Whether or not there's individuals who get credit or don't get credit, that may be totally irrelevant. It was a collaboration. And it was almost a collaboration that came out of necessity.
In a lot of ways, we needed something. We felt a definite pressure. I felt like in two months I'd have nothing to take on. I had no idea what I was going to be doing. I was looking for something else and I wanted to keep the team together.
I put together a bare-bones team and kept it really separate and I ran it by Ev and the investors. I did all I could to keep it separate because there was lots of stuff going on with Odeo. Trying to make it better, trying to sell it. And lots of distractions. It was really difficult. Here I was inside of a sinking ship trying to launch a rocketship out of it. It was a very tumultuous, scary, and nervous time.
BI: I heard from one of Odeo's investors that you approached people at one point to say, "Hey, let me spin this thing off and start a company called Twitter." Is that true?
NG: Yeah. That's totally true. And that's probably part of the reason why I'm no longer involved with it. I felt like Odeo was crashing around me and I didn't want Twitter to be.
We had done a soft launch of it. I kept it really secret. I didn't want anyone to know what we were working on as we were setting up all the technical aspects of it.
Originally, it was all running on my laptop on my desk. An IBM Thinkpad. Using a Verizon wireless card. It was right there on my desk. I could just pick it up and take it anywhere in the world. That was a really fun time.
BI: That's when you wanted to spin Twitter off from Odeo?
NG: That was the plan — take this thing and spin it off. At that time, even in the very early stages, I had this strange feeling that I had never had before — that this was something big. I felt it from the onset. People must have thought I was a crazy person because of the way I treated it. That may have been detrimental. I really felt strongly, more strongly than I felt about anything in the past and since then — that this is something massive sitting right here in front of us. All it needs is time to grow.
I actually had done all the paperwork and was ready to roll. It was ready to go. That's not the way it worked out.
BI: I asked an investor "why did Evan end up running the company and not you?" The person basically said Ev had the money.
NG: Yeah, he had the power. Looking back, it seems to be the right thing now. It worked out, right? At the time, it didn't feel like it.
Maybe I would have done things slightly differently and that was one of the things Ev and I had a disagreement on early on, and I told him I would do things differently.
This may be cliché to say, but when you speak truth to power, the ramifications can go a lot of different ways. Evan Williams is a powerhouse. Did you talk to him at all?
BI: I've tried to. He doesn't really want to talk.
NG:: He can talk to who he wants to now. He's the creator of Blogger, he's a massively influential person behind the blogging thing. He definitely has some amazing skills. What he did with Twitter definitely resulted in growth that was phenomenal.
I spent a lot of time early-on building a mechanism that would facilitate growth that we saw and facilitate sharing like what we see happening now. Initially, the product was growing because of the social aspect between people. The idea that police departments or fire departments are using it to give updates on the city, that was something we built into it in the very beginning as a concept. A lot of that stuff was hashed out early on.
BI: You said you felt almost immediately that Twitter could go somewhere and be powerful. When do you think Evan sort of saw that?
NG: I don't know if he sees it now, honestly. He's no longer the CEO. That's probably indicative. I think the way he works, and the way everyone works, is to validate it within your community. He saw his friends grabbing on to it early on and thought, "Oh, this is something." Whether he thought it was something big, I never really got that indication.
BI: Do you think he saw something valuable in Twitter before he bought it back from investors?
NG: Yes. Of course he did. Ev is very shrewd. He's a very shrewd businessman, and he's had a lot of practice. He's had lots of failures in the past. He's had some big failures in the past. That's his business — to isolate and spot value where it is.
There's a difference between between fanatical — and I hate to say that I was fanatical — but to be extremely passionate like I am or being very super rational and calculated like he is. Evan and I are two different polar opposites. I am very passionate about certain things and I will get passionate about certain things I believe in. I'll speak passionately and I'll wave my arms and I'll jump up and down and I'll use energy to prove my point or create momentum around an idea. Whereas he'll sit down, think about it, write it down, walk away. He'll write a paper on it, come back and say, "This is my opinion." He's very calculated.

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Before you spit your coffee all over that fancy monitor, exclaiming "Wait a minute! That's not a Mopar – it's not even an American car!", just hear me out. While it's true that the Interceptor hailed from across the pond by way of our friends in the United Kingdom, the Jensen came equipped with a […] More »


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JACKSON -- Mississippi's top elections official said Tuesday that he has given the federal government proposed rules for how the state intends to carry out a voter identification law that is in limbo.
Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann's submission to the U.S. Justice Department is part of the state's process of seeking federal approval of the law that would require every voter to show a driver's license or other photo ID at the polls.
The law can't take effect without clearance from the Justice Department or a federal court. It's unclear when, or how, the department will respond. Hosemann started seeking approval several months ago.
"Our agency is proposing procedures to ensure every eligible voter who does not currently have acceptable photo ID will be able to obtain an ID easily and free of charge," Republican Hosemann said in a news release Tuesday.
Any voter who lacks ID could get one free from a circuit clerk, he said. Each of the 82 counties has at least one circuit clerk's office; a few have two.
The secretary of state's office also obtained an agreement allowing circuit clerks to verify birth records with the state Department of Health, at no cost to a voter who needs ID. Critics have said this wouldn't help voters who were born at home or in other states.
Hosemann said any voter who needs a photo ID also could get a free ride to the circuit clerk's office, through an agreement his office reached with the state Department of Transportation.
Mississippi voters in November 2011 approved a state constitutional amendment to require photo ID at the polls. Legislators passed a law in 2012 to enact the provisions.
Because of Mississippi's history of racial discrimination, it needs federal approval for any election changes.
Supporters of voter ID say it would dissuade people from masquerading as others to vote. Critics say there's scant evidence of that happening, and they frequently compare the ID requirement to poll taxes that used to be levied to prevent black voters, and some poor white voters, from casting ballots.


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Valentine's Crafts for Kids
Make your own homemade valentines this year with these easy, DIY Valentine's craft ideas kids will love
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It's a Draw
Turn old crayon bits into a nifty Valentine favor or gift by baking them in silicone heart molds. Kids can fill the molds to create their own marbleized patterns.
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Shape of My Heart
These clever, super-easy paper clips are perfect for a favorite teacher. Wrap up in a cute box, or use them to decorate the edges of a homemade card.
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Love Bugs
Almost too cute to eat! Put out the supplies at your Valentine party for these little love bug treats and let kids decorate their own marshmallow critters.
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#1 Valentine
Put a pin on it with these badges, made from bits of felt and ribbon.
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Coming Up Roses
The bottom of celery stalks get a second life when used as rose stamps.
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Wreathed in Love
Strips of patterned paper become a beautiful decoration for your entryway. Go beyond traditional red, pink and white to have something that can stay up all year.
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A Sweet Handout
Turn a snapshot into a 3-D postcard. These photo valentines stay sweet even after the lollipop is gone.
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Tiny Valentine
Great valentines come in small packages with these adorable matchbox valentines. Your kid can help by sorting the sweets, choosing fun craft paper to wrap up her tiny delights and adding her illustrations.
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Petal Pusher
Turn empty egg cartons from your recycling bin into colorful flowers to spruce up lollipop valentines.
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From the Heart
These origami hearts are so easy to make, your kids can make a valentine for everyone on her list.
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Stripe-y straws turn into a garland in this simple craft even preschoolers can do.
Frame of Heart
Recycle heart-shaped candy boxes into a clever homemade photo frame.
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Grow to Love
All you need for this keepsake project is finger paint and some wee hands. His forearm imprint makes the trunk, a handprint forms the branches and tiny thumbprints make the heart-shaped leaves.
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Make the Valentine delivery as special as the cards with this crafty mailbox template, constructed from printed paper.


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Angels Short Hops: Game 2
Walk-off homer ends Halos' chance for split in series
By Mychael Urban / MLB.com
After walking David Ortiz intentionally with two outs in the ninth, Francisco Rodriguez gave up a mammoth walk-off homer to Manny Ramirez. Frozen moment
After 17-year-old Red Sox fan Danny Vinik snagged a foul ball off the bat of Ramirez that was about to fall into his glove, Angels catcher Jeff Mathis bounced back into the field of play with a frustrated scream. Big number
5 -- The Angels tied a Division Series record with five stolen bases for the game, including three in the eighth inning, also tying a series record. Game balls
Scot Shields
Something of a concern going into the playoffs because he lost his setup role after a series of shaky outings late in the season, Shields got a little help from Coco Crisp's brain cramp on the bases during a scoreless sixth, then shrugged off a pair of walks with two outs in the seventh to keep the score knotted at 3.
Orlando Cabrera
Cabrera walked in the top of the first, and after settling down starter Kelvim Escobar with an animated pep talk in the dugout after the bottom of the first, Cabrera banged a double off the Green Monster for a 3-2 Angels lead in the top of the second.
Francisco Rodriguez
The Angels closer couldn't do what his counterpart Jonathan Papelbon could.
Sense of October
After Howie Kendrick stole second base with two outs in the top of the eighth, Angels manager Mike Scioscia had Juan Rivera pinch-hit for Mathis with the count at 1-1. Papelbon blew his first pitch to Rivera by him, after which Kendrick stole third and Rivera worked a walk before being lifted for pinch-runner Reggie Willits, who promptly stole second base himself.
Garret Anderson
Comment: His swollen right eye still closer to shut than open, Anderson was the only Angel with more than one hit.
Kelvim Escobar
Comment: It's not the prettiest line, but after Boston's two-run first, the only run Escobar allowed came courtesy of Vinik's hometown helper, which cost the Angels an out in the fifth.
"We need a three-game winning streak. It's that simple. And we've won three in a row a bunch of times before, so why can't we do it again?" -- Shields
Next step
Second-year righty Jered Weaver gets the ball for Game 3 on Sunday, as the Angels try to avoid a repeat of their 2004 ALDS sweep at the hands of the Red Sox.
Mychael Urban is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Mattingly places no blame for rally-killing double play
By Ken Gurnick and Austin Laymance / MLB.com
LOS ANGELES -- Manager Don Mattingly did not fault Andre Ethier or Yasiel Puig for the rally-killing double play in the ninth inning of the Dodgers' 4-2 loss in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series on Tuesday.
The Dodgers had a chance to come back from two runs down against Cardinals closer Trevor Rosenthal after Ethier led off with a single, but those hopes were dashed when Puig bounced into the Dodgers' third double play of the game.
It was not a routine double play, either. Cardinals second baseman Matt Carpenter fielded the ball and tagged Ethier -- playing despite a microfracture in his lower left leg -- before firing to first in time to get the speedy Puig.
Mattingly does not think Ethier's injury posed a problem in that situation.
"I think if he stops too early, the guy just throws the ball to first," Mattingly said on Wednesday before Game 5. "If I stop too early and you don't come after me, then I'm dead at second anyway. So there is a fine line where you're trying to be close enough where the guy's going to tag you -- 'Can I break it up that way?' When he comes after you, you have to hopefully try to be able to back-pedal enough to buy Yasiel a step."
Mattingly did not have Dee Gordon pinch-run for Ethier because of the two-run deficit.
"Well, we're two runs down, so that run doesn't mean anything," he said. "So we're station-to-station at that point. If we get to [Juan] Uribe or [A.J.] Ellis and we're two runs down, then we'd use Dee. We wouldn't use Dee until we get to that winning run or tying run. So that would be a wasted runner right there."
Schumaker, Mattingly effusive with praise for Molina
LOS ANGELES -- Though his team is still alive in the National League Championship Series, utility man Skip Schumaker has seen enough of Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina.
"In my opinion, not only is Yadi the MVP of that team, but the league," said Schumaker, a former teammate of Molina's in St. Louis. "What he means to them defensively, commanding the game, shutting down the running game almost completely.
"If you watch him really closely during the game, he's moving in outfielders, telling infielders to take a step right or left. He's one of the smarter baseball people I've been around, and maybe the smartest."
Schumaker -- echoing compliments that several of the Dodgers made about Molina through this series -- also cited Molina's role as an on-field coach for the Cardinals' young pitching staff.
"He makes the team that much better and makes those young pitchers so good, because they know they can trust him and not have to shake him off at any point," he said. "That is a really good thing to have confidence-wise when you're a young pitcher."
Manager Don Mattingly endorsed Molina from the perspective of a skipper whose club has been kept off-balance by St. Louis' pitching plan.
"Again, I look at Yadi," said Mattingly, a former batting champ and coach. "He does a really good job of knowing when to get ahead in the count and when to use his breaking ball if he feels like you're going to be aggressive. So it's always cat-and-mouse, back and forth."
Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com. Austin Laymance is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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CF saw State College of Florida-Manatee score seven unanswered runs, dealing the Patriots a 7-3 loss at Goodlett Field.
The College of Central Florida baseball team has readied itself for Mid-Florida Conference play with five straight games against teams ranked among the top eight in the state.
On Monday afternoon, the Patriots finally ran out of gas.
CF (13-9) saw State College of Florida-Manatee score seven unanswered runs, which helped deal the Patriots a 7-3 loss at Goodlett Field.
"We just hit a wall," said Patriots coach Marty Smith, whose team has played 41 innings over the span of five games in four days.
Leading 2-0 in the sixth inning and with starter Colby Wisdom (2-2) rolling, CF saw Jared Smith rip a hit to the gap that scored the tying runs.
Jared Smith attempted to get to third for a triple and the ball got away and went into the dugout, which allowed the Manatees to score the go-ahead run.
SCOF (15-7), ranked eighth in the state, added four more runs in the seventh to stretch things out.
"(Wisdom) pitched very well and did a nice job of mixing things up," Marty Smith said. "He got that one pitch up (to Jared Smith) and (SCOF) cleared the bases and then the momentum changed.
"It burst our bubble (when the tying runs and ensuing go-ahead score came across). From there, the momentum really changed and (SCOF) took it to us late. They're a very good team."
The Patriots scored single runs in the first and third innings to grab the early lead.
Mario Urdaneta led off the first with a single and scored three batters later on a RBI double by Darren Fischer.
Urdaneta walked and came around to score the second run in the third, while Josh Ellzey scored CF's other run in the seventh.
The Manatees, who improved to 2-0 this season against CF, used four relief pitchers over the final four innings and allowed just one run.
Urdaneta (1-for-3, two runs scored), Fischer (1-for-4, double, RBI), Collin Woody (1-for-4), Ellzey (run scored), Spencer Bowles (1-for-4), Enderson Velasquez (1-for-3) and Spencer Bowles (1-for-3) led the way at the plate for the Patriots, who fell to 8-3 at home on the season.
CF, which went 3-1 against teams ranked among the top three in the state over the previous three days, returns to action on Wednesday afternoon at 3 at home against the Davenport JV.


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Here at WoW Insider, we've been on a beginners' class guide kick. But after taking the time to put together my shadow priest leveling guide (and after reading the warlock leveling guide written by my less talented coworker), I realized that we didn't have any kind of leveling guides for professions. Time to fix that! After all, you need professions to make money.
But first, the most important question: What professions should your character choose? The best answer is always going to be "whatever appeals to you most" -- but if you're a magic-using, cloth-wearing class, I'd recommend you at least take a look at tailoring. By leveling it, you get access to Lightweave Embroidery, one of the best level 85 buffs in the game for casters.
Of course, you can level tailoring on any character, and a lot of the craftables you make can be sold at a profit. But if that character can't use the buffs from the profession, you're missing one the key benefits to max leveling a profession.


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Inspired by Insider rumour article that ends with: "With Philadelphia expected to overhaul its roster next season and Jrue Holiday the only sure thing to be back, we have to wonder -- could this be the final stretch of Turner's days as a 76er?"
The question isn't would the Raptors do this trade, but would the 76er's?
Could we sell them on a Bynum/Bargs combination? (attitudes aside)


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"Sincerely" reviewed by Zoe on August 1, 2012
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Sophie lives in NYC, she has a little sister who has a way of driving her insane, parents who fight all the time and a best friend who's suddenly to cool to hang out with her. When Sophie's teacher assigns the whole class pen pals, Sophie thinks it's just another lame assignment, but it turns out she feels safe confiding her pen pal, and soon she's writing letters about everything she can't tell anyone else. Katie lives in Redwood City, California. She has a mother who seems to care way more about her big sister than her, a best friend, Jake, who starts to obsess over another girl, and a huge project she takes on to help people in need. When Katie does something she's not proud of she finds out she can tell her pen pal, Sophie, everything. This book is about two pen pals living on opposite sides of the country who find each other in times of need.
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DreamWorks Studios has acquired the feature film rights to EA's Need for Speed franchise, the two firms announced today.
Brothers George and John Gatins developed the original story with George writing the screenplay.
The screenplay is based on the Need for Speed series, but is not based on an individual game.
EA will produce along with John Gatins and Mark Sourian. Scott Waugh (Act of Valor) is attached to direct, and the project will be fast-tracked at DreamWorks with a target production start date for early next year, for a 2014 release.
The film is described as a fast-paced, rooted in the tradition of the car culture films of the 70s, but remaining faithful to the spirit of the Need for Speed games.
"I'm excited about getting back into the creative trenches with John and George Gatins and my partners at EA to bring to life an exhilarating script based on an epic video game that seems to have been made for the movies," said Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks Chairman. "This is a big piece of business for DreamWorks and we are grateful to Frank Gibeau, Pat O'Brien, Kevin Maher and John and George for choosing us to deliver their goods."
The Need for Speed franchise has sold more than 140 million units worldwide, generating an estimated $4 billion in revenue.


text: Okay a question that only maybe I can answer. But this show bothers me... I loved season 1. Wanted to watch it again, buy it all that sort of thing. Season 2 I was enjoying for quite some time - about 2/3 of it. Then all of a sudden - not even sure what particular episode it was - I started to lose interest rapidly. I started to feel bored. The "one person has a melodramatic conversation with another person" repetitive format started to appear very transparent to me. Some of the plot points felt like they were icebergs in the season's storyline, with the narrative almost dictating what would happen soon after and like the story was on rails. And season 3 has not got me back. Normally I love shows that kill people off... but when they do it now I just yawn. They some how seem to have made death predictable. Rick's "I'm angry I'll kill people get covered in blood, have a moment smile then be okay" is just cliché 101 on characters being 'troubled'. It's right up there with "if someone is drinking a lot or do dangerous things they must be depressed viewers" plot point, which the likes of BSG enjoyed. Okay, maybe I have answered my own question above... but does anyone else feel like this? Normally I give up on shows that don't interest me anymore, but I'm holding on. Also I see it's astronomical ratings and it's clearly doing well. But can I get my interest back? I hate this sort of position... where you want to like it again, but just can't seem to do so.


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2. (For those who have not had children): If you were in a committed relationship with someone nearly as perfect as Edward, how would you react to an unexpected pregnancy?
I'm at the point where it wouldn't be that shocking - I would be happy and I'd have the baby, even though it wasn't planned. There was a time in my life I would have definitely panicked, though.
3. Was the pregnancy as unexpected for you as it was for Bella and Edward?
No - I knew.
4. Both Bella and Edward act fiercely to protect the ones they love. Do you think it is right for Bella to protect her baby before considering Edward's needs?
Yes - I think it's natural. But I think she could have told him and he would have understood. they are good at communicating when they give it a chance. He'd never hurt her or someone she cared about, and she should know that by now.


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Fairmont Hot Springs Resort general manager Steve Luebeck said staffers knew the goat was missing but didn't realize it had been stolen until they saw a story in The Montana Standard on Wednesday reporting that a goat had been taken into a Butte bar early Sunday.
The pygmy goat, named "Shirley, was returned to the resort's petting zoo.
Luebeck told The Standard he has never had an animal stolen from the zoo, which has goats and miniature horses. He said zoo managers would like to know who took the animal so they can press charges.


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By Jordan Bastian / MLB.com
"It's going to be fun one we get everyone in the lineup at the same time and get clicking on all cylinders, and get into some meaningful spots in games. We'll have guys stealing bases, and hitting-and-running, doing the little things like taking an extra base with our speed. Getting to those games where we can start utilizing everything we have in this clubhouse is going to be fun."
-- Reynolds
Kazmir pleased with outing despite runs allowed
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Scott Kazmir is hoping the Indians use more than the pitching line found in the box score to evaluate his latest performance. The lefty knows Cleveland is nearing a decision on its fifth starter and that his outing against the Mariners might have been his final say on the mound.
Over five inconsistent innings, Kazmir surrendered five runs in a 10-5 Cactus League victory for the Indians. He said he was concentrating on establishing his fastball and building up his pitch count -- an approach that contributed to a constant string of hits by Seattle.
"Besides what the scoreboard says, it went well. It really did," Kazmir said. "For the most part, my fastball, it felt really good early on. That was the game plan, to kind of stick with that and to build up a lot more strength since I was going that deep. I almost felt a little too good. I felt like I was overthrowing a little bit."
Indians manager Terry Francona indicated that he and general manager Chris Antonetti would sit down on Sunday to discuss the fifth starter situation. The decision is down to either Kazmir (a non-roster invitee) or right-hander Carlos Carrasco, who missed all of last season while recovering from Tommy John surgery on his throwing elbow.
Francona said part of the decision will revolve around the suspension that is still linked to Carrasco. On July 29, 2011, Carrasco threw at Kansas City slugger Billy Butler's head, leading to a six-game suspension from Major League Baseball. Carrasco appealed the suspension, and later underwent season-ending surgery before serving his punishment.
"I think we'd like to get things in order as soon as we can," Francona said. "We'll all meet and we'll kind of get things figured out. ... I don't know the situation with Carrasco. We've got to get some clarity. Once we get that, then we can start making some decisions."
Kazmir, who has not pitched a full season in the big leagues since 2010, allowed 13 hits (six extra-base hits) and finished with five strikeouts and no walks in his 85-pitch effort against the Mariners. He surrendered a two-run home run to Raul Ibanez in the fifth inning and had a pair of doubles (Kelly Shoppach in the fourth inning and Mike Dowd in the fifth) that bounced off the batter's eye in center field.
In other ballparks, balls that strike the batter's eye are home runs. That is not the case in Peoria.
"That was awesome, yeah," Kazmir said. "I told Kelly, 'That's the longest double I've ever seen.'"
Kidding aside, Kazmir knows his performance was not particularly strong in terms of results, though he noted he threw fastballs in situations where he might feature offspeed pitches during the regular season. Overall this spring, the left-hander has surrendered nine runs (eight earned) on 29 hits with 23 strikeouts and three walks over 21 innings, which cover four Cactus League outings and a pair of Minor League starts.
"Coming to crunch time right now," Kazmir said. "There's a lot of decisions to be made and an outing could make the difference. That's why I've said from the beginning I'm just focused on what I need to accomplish and what I need to do to get better. Today was a step in the right direction."
Tribe fields young lineup as regulars rest
PEORIA, Ariz. -- The lineup that the Indians' assembled for Saturday's game against the Mariners looked nothing like the projected nine for Opening Day. The group Cleveland fielded at Peoria Stadium was instead a glimpse at the ballclub's future.
Shortstop Francisco Lindor and center fielder Tyler Naquin -- the Indians' first-round picks in the 2011 and '12 Drafts, respectively -- were in the starting lineup, along with second base prospect Jose Ramirez. Middle infield prospects Tony Wolters and Ronny Rodriguez came off the bench.
"That was really fun today," Indians manager Terry Francona said. "Our young kids, and they're really young, they looked like they belonged out there. That was really exciting."
Combined, those five farmhands went 7-for-17 at the plate in a 10-5 Cactus League victory for the Indians, accounting for three runs scored, three extra-base hits and four RBIs in the process. Lindor paced the pack of prospects by going 3-for-5 with an RBI triple and one run.
Francona has been impressed all spring by the 19-year-old Lindor, who has hit .316 (6-for-19) in nine Cactus League games.
"His future is really bright," Francona said. "And the kid Ramirez and Naquin. That was a fun day for the organization."
Many of Cleveland's regulars had appeared in three consecutive games, including Friday's night game against the D-backs. As a result, Saturday's tilt against Seattle was used as a rest day for most of the Major Leaguers. Utility man Mike Aviles and backup catcher Lou Marson were in the lineup, along with bench candidates Jason Giambi, Ezequiel Carrera and Cord Phelps.
"We're just trying to cover everything," Francona said of giving the regular players a day off. "Their bodies aren't used to playing a night game, and then a day game yet."
Tribe holding big hopes for slugger Reynolds
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Mark Reynolds' son was in the stands at Goodyear Ballpark on Friday night when the Indians designated hitter launched a mammoth home run that arced over the top of the scoreboard that looms behind the left-field lawn seats.
After the game, 3-year-old Jacob Reynolds talked to his dad about the blast.
"He said, 'You hit it and nobody caught it,'" Reynolds said with a smile on Saturday morning. "He's figuring it out."
The Indians hope Reynolds can keep hitting baseballs were nobody can catch them this season.
That was the idea when Cleveland reeled Reynolds in with a one-year contract over the winter.
The Indians have lacked a true right-handed power hitter over the past few seasons and the team believes Reynolds can fill that void. Dating back to 2008, Reynolds ranks fourth in baseball in home runs by a right-handed hitter (164). Only Albert Pujols (193), Miguel Cabrera (183) and Ryan Braun (168) have launched more homers in that span.
This spring, Reynolds has hit .350 (14-for-40) with three homers and seven RBIs in 15 Cactus League games.
"I think he's exactly what we expected," Indians manager Terry Francona said. "He's a guy that can play first, DH, and we can run him over to third. The hope is that there's production there, because there's going to be strikeouts. But I don't think you try to mess with changing his [style]."
Reynolds averaged 208 strikeouts per year from 2008-11, but he also posted an average of 35 home runs and 92 RBIs in that same four-year stretch. He set the single-season strikeout record with 223 in 2009, but that season he also hit .260 with 44 home runs and 102 RBIs for the D-backs.
He's enjoyed a few tape-measure moonshots along the way.
"I run into one every now and then," Reynolds said with a smirk.
Reynolds shrugged off Friday night's blast against the D-backs.
"I'm just glad my kid was in the stands to see it," he said.
Smoke signals
• Indians All-Star closer Chris Perez, who is working his way back from a right shoulder strain, logged one inning in a Minor League game on Saturday. Perez threw 30 pitches, including 19 strikes, and allowed one run on two hits with one walk and one strikeout.
"Great to get out there again," Perez wrote on his @ChrisPerez54 Twitter page. "If the season started next week, I'd be ready. What's that? It does start next week? #Ready #BullpenMafia."
• Francona said catcher Carlos Santana will use most of the next week catching up with the team's many signs, which are modified for the regular season. Santana rejoined Cleveland on Thursday after helping the Dominican Republic win the World Baseball Classic.
• Francona indicated that Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis, who has missed the past four games due to a tender right elbow, should be back in the lineup on Sunday. Kipnis said earlier this week that the injury was not serious and he could play through it in the regular season.
• Cleveland posts a daily pitching leaderboard in its clubhouse for first-pitch strikes and 1-1 strikes. In the 1-1 strike category, right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez led the team's starting pitchers with a strike rate of 83 percent (20-for-24).
• Indians right fielder Matt Carson exited Saturday's game in the fifth inning after falling at the warning track while trying to make a catch on Kyle Seager's triple for Seattle. Carson suffered a forehead laceration and a neck strain and is considered day to day.
Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Major League Bastian, and follow him on Twitter @MLBastian. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Nevada Still Struggling, but Shows Signs of Recovery
When comparing Nevada credit unions' key financial indicators against other states as of June 30, the results aren't good. Nevada's 0.40% return on average assets, 2.5% loan delinquency and negative 11% loan growth are among the worst performance numbers in the country. However, compared with two years ago, those numbers are positive proof the recession didn't permanently tarnish credit unions in the Silver State.
Take the $693 million One Nevada Credit Union, for example. The Las Vegas-based institution reported an ROA of 0.17% as of June 30. That number is a far cry from the previous industry standard of 100 basis points, but as President/CEO Brad Beal said, "At least it's in the black."
Just two years ago, the One Nevada's second-quarter numbers included negative 0.73% ROA, a 4.95% loan delinquency figure and a 5.66% charge-off ratio. Charge-offs were still around 4% as of June 30, but delinquencies have fallen to 2.51%, on pace with the state average.
Although the tourism-based Nevada economy is still weak, it has stabilized, Beal said. And, One Nevada has worked its way through the bad loans in its portfolio and is left with relatively high-quality loans.
"In terms of ROA, we're putting away less in provisions for loan losses," Beal said. Although the credit union's $6.6 million year-to-date June 30 loan-loss provision is "pretty heavy," he said it's $2 million lower than the $8.6 million it had set aside one year prior. And, both numbers pale in comparison to the $23.7 million the then-Nevada FCU put into loan-loss provisions as of June 30, 2009.
Nevada Credit Union League Chief Economist Dwight Johnston said considering what Nevada credit unions have been through, they've weathered the storm well.
"The thing that jumps out to me are capital ratios," Johnston said. He noted that some large, struggling credit unions have distorted the average, but statewide Nevada credit unions reported around 11% net worth as of June 30.
"That's pretty close, historically, to what they've always run," he said, "and that speaks well to how they've managed through it."
There's still work to be done managing through the recession in Nevada, Johnston said, because construction provided such an economic boost in the state, and the sector won't return to the levels seen in the boom years.
However, he said, the worst has passed. Most credit unions in Nevada, like One Nevada, have worked their way through the weak links in the loan portfolio and can look forward to less aggressive loan-loss reserves in the future. Investors are buying up the state's glut of foreclosed homes, although the economist said he's concerned the new owners won't gain the cash flow they're expecting from renters.
Online retailers, including Amazon and Zappos, have facilities in Las Vegas and are supplying jobs. However, those positions aren't well-suited for the throngs of construction workers that make up the state's current 12% unemployment rate.
"Talk about a retraining effort," Johnston said, noting that Las Vegas may see a continued decline in population.
Occupancy rates for hotels on The Strip are high, Beal said, running in the 90% range. However, tourism has not completely bounced back because tourists aren't spending nearly as much once they arrive in Las Vegas.
Members aren't spending money either. Nevada's negative 11% 12-month loan growth is the worst in the country. One Nevada reported negative 8% loan growth as of June 30, as members have little demand for new consumer loans, and the credit union hit its business loan cap when it shrunk its assets.
"We haven't made any business loans for a couple of years now," Beal said, noting that investors are snapping up commercial real estate at historically low prices. "We would make those loans if we had the room to do so, but we would be pretty selective about it."
The only lending action One Nevada is seeing these days is in refinancing auto and mortgage loans.
"We're kind of recycling the existing business out there since there's not much new business," Beal said, "but it has given us the opportunity to attract some new members."
Since the federal government's Home Affordable Refinance Program eliminated loan-to-value limits last fall, One Nevada has been buried in HARP 2.0 refinance applications, Beal said.
"We've done almost $60 million in HARP refis in the last two months, compared to about $150 million during all of last year," Beal said. "HARP 2.0 has been extremely good for homeowners in Nevada and our credit union."
HARP 2.0 has been so popular in Nevada, Beal said that after two weeks marketing mortgage refis, the credit union stopped pitching the program.
"At some point, we will reinstitute some marketing for it because some consumers are still unaware of their options. But for the moment, we aren't doing any marketing at all and still writing that stuff like crazy," Beal said.
The credit union isn't keeping any of the refinanced mortgages on its balance sheet, selling them all to Fannie Mae but earning noninterest income off the deals, he said.
Elko, Nev., located in the northeast corner of the state, has been relatively immune from the economic downfall suffered in the population centers of Las Vegas and Reno. In fact, according to Elko Federal Credit Union President/CEO Kelly Buckner, the mining community is experiencing an economic boom thanks to record high gold prices.
The area is largest producer of gold in the country, and one of the top four in the world, he said. The gold boom has had a big impact on the $117 million credit union's financials, which buck the statewide trend. As of June 30, EFCU reported 0.32% delinquencies to total loans, and a jaw-dropping low 0.06% charge-off ratio. ROA was 0.73%, and net worth, market share, membership and deposits are all growing at a healthy pace so far this year.
However, like everywhere else in the country, Buckner said he's having difficulty making new loans. EFCU reported a negative 5.74% loan growth rate as of June 30 and continues to battle a shrinking loan-to-share ratio.
With an eye toward the future, Buckner said EFCU is currently investigating its options to start making member business loans after receiving "a lot of requests from members who own small businesses, need financing and know the credit union can provide it safely and soundly."
EFCU also recently signed on with CU Direct Lending, he said, hoping the partnership will generate more auto loan business.


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Maroon 5 Releases Paint-Drenched 'Love Somebody' VideoAdam Levine manages to make messy sexy and is seen rubbing his hands, full of paint naturally, over the body of a female model.
Maroon 5 Gives Fans A Peek Of "Overexposed" Tour In Los AngelesFans gathered to catch a sneak peek of Maroon 5 before they head out on tour in support of their critically-acclaimed album, Overexposed.
Maroon 5's Adam Levine Recalls An Epic Night With PrinceWatch Maroon 5's performance in the Red Bull Sound Space with Carson Daly tomorrow at 10am PT / 1pm ET.
Maroon 5 Embrace Pop Music After 'Jagger' SuccessFrontman Adam Levine has said the album is "the first time we've ever completely embraced the idea of making pop music," and guitarist James Valentine explained how the band made the jump.
Maroon 5 Announce Release Date For New Album "Overexposed"


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Imagine your at your cousin's wedding, dancing it up to "I Will Survive" on the dance floor with you Uncle, sneaking cake before the cutting, trying not to get it on your dress, and out comes [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Justin Bieber[/lastfm].
Well, that is essentially what happened this weekend when Justin Bieber and his main girl, [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Selena Gomez[/lastfm], decided to play wedding crasher at a wedding reception in Malibu.
17-years-old Justin Bieber and his girlfriend and fellow teen pop icon, Selena Gomez, did what all teenagers should do a few times–they crashed a party. Apparently, the Biebs and his babe were wandering on the beach and heard "One Less Lonely Girl" playing.
Bieber told the audience on the microphone: "We just crashed it. We heard a party so we decided to just come. So let's party."
And party he did. Did we ever tell you how much we are loving grown-up-ish Bieber?
So cute.
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Mosquito Range > Mount Tweto > Climber's Log
Mount Tweto Climber's Log
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|Buckskin, then Tweto on the connecting ridge
Date Climbed: Jul 26, 2016
|To Buckskin from the saddle between Tweto and Buckskin. Then reversed to Tweto. Basically, park at the mentioned fork in Mosquito drainage right before you'd cross the creek. Walk the road (leads north) all the way to the dilapidated roof structure which resembles my first apartment after college. The rusty mattress also brings nostalgia. Anyway. A cable extends through the air to a former mine on the hill. Hike to that mine. Then hoof it over loose class 2-ish rubble to the ridge. I hit Buckskin first, then climbed the entire ridge back to Tweto and then came down the saddle to the south of Neato, back to my old apartment, then took the road back to the car. This seemed a lot better than walking way west to Twetos summit first, then the ridge to Buckskin, then a long long rolling ridge walk plus an extended walk back to your car. Or shuttling the Kite Lake way.
|Posted Jul 27, 2016 6:13 pm
|Traverse...or not
Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2015
|Was going to make the traverse over to London. Went and got a cheeseburger instead
|Posted May 5, 2016 4:29 pm
|Foxy Long Bottoms
Date Climbed: Oct 27, 2010
|London, Repeater, Mosquito, Treasurevault, Point 13 something and Tweto.
|Posted Mar 1, 2016 11:59 pm
|Long day
Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2015
|Hiked up Buckskin first than traversed over Tweto to Arkansas. The ridge between Buckskin and Tweto was definitely fun! Mostly class-3 all the way (if you stick to the ridge proper).
|Posted Sep 5, 2015 10:27 pm
|Good Peak for the Mosquitos
Date Climbed: Jul 9, 2006
|7/8/06 - Climbed along with Arkansas. Short easy day.
3/15/15 - Started hiking at the winter closure near Paris Mill on the Kite Lake road. Lovelend -> Buckskin -> Tweto -> Treasurevault -> Mosquito -> Kuss -> London. Ended at Mosquito Pass winter closure (car shuttle). Connecting 1 mile ridge between Buckskin & Tweto took close to 3 hours; not too difficult, just tedious.
|Posted Mar 16, 2015 9:59 pm
|Mosquito Loop
Date Climbed: Aug 22, 2014
|Parked at 11,500 in Mosquito Gulch. Started with Tweto and traversed to Treasurevault, Mosquito, and Repeater. Came down the road.
|Posted Aug 22, 2014 6:27 pm
|winterlike in the mosquitoes
Date Climbed: Nov 15, 2008
|climbed tweto on a bitterly cold day. thoughts on the saint elias range were running thru my mind all day, and i felt like i was there!
|Posted Jul 14, 2014 3:22 pm
|winter ridge run
Date Climbed: Jan 8, 2012
|with Brian, Jon, and Aaron (and Okie). I was incredibly slow, but got this plus Mosquito, Treasurevault, and Repeater.
|Posted Jun 24, 2014 11:38 pm
|Ridge Loop
Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2013
|Hiked a loop starting on Mosquito Pass road. Peaks included Tweto, Arkansas, Treasurevault, and Mosquito.
|Posted Aug 7, 2013 10:41 am
|Nice Warm November Day.
Date Climbed: Nov 21, 2012
|Did this the day before Thanksgiving Day yet it almost felt like a summer hike. The ridge crest was quite windy though.
|Posted Nov 22, 2012 12:21 am
|Mosquito pass
Date Climbed: Nov 18, 2012
|Great november's day, late start but no complains.
|Posted Nov 18, 2012 7:35 pm
Date Climbed: May 27, 2012
|Great holidays that I spent in the mountains. First day, I hiked Jacque Peak and Pennsylvania Mountain. It was very smoky that day, first glimpse on the fire season. View of Tenmiles are great. Second day I hiked Tweto, Mosquito, Treasurevault, Repeater, Evans B and London. Great and long trip.
|Posted Oct 24, 2012 5:31 pm
|Loop Hike
Date Climbed: Jun 16, 2012
|Combined with Treasurevault, Mosquito & Repeater.
|Posted Aug 28, 2012 10:20 pm
Date Climbed: Mar 10, 2012
|The wife, pup and I.
|Posted Jul 27, 2012 6:49 pm
|Mosquito Basin
Date Climbed: May 26, 2012
|CMC trip. It was very windy. There were wildfires burning in New Mexico and Arizona, so it was pretty hazy for most of the day. We hiked up to Tweto from North London Mill, then headed over to Mount Arkansas.
|Posted May 27, 2012 5:20 pm
|Brian Kalet
|6 Peaks
Date Climbed: Sep 9, 2007
|Trip Report
|Posted Apr 19, 2012 2:23 pm
|Sarah Simon
|From Mosquito Pass Rd with Arkansas
Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2012
|What a beautiful day. We got to the summit of Tweto, then enjoyed the scrambling and easy snow-work (heavy snowpack year!) over to Arkasas. Great glissade on the way to the trucks down the slopes of Tweto!
|Posted Apr 9, 2012 11:30 am
|Sarah Simon
|From dirt road off Mosquito Pass Road
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2008
|We enjoyed the summit of Tweto, including the old wooden sign, but there was no HOPE for Arkansas this day as the storm was raging to the west. Janet and I RAN back down from the summit to our 4X4!
|Posted Apr 9, 2012 11:29 am
|With Arkansas
Date Climbed: Nov 10, 2007
|11/10/07: Solo, Fun scrambling on the connecting ridge with Arkansas. Started on a spur road off the Mosquito Pass Road.
4/8/17: With Rachael and Levi, started at winter closure for Mosquito Pass Road, pretty much continuous snow the entire way up minus a few patches on the ridge.
|Posted Apr 8, 2012 6:25 pm
|Matt Lemke
|Peak number 10
Date Climbed: Apr 6, 2012
|in my Mosquito range traverse (Started at Horseshoe Peak via Leavick)
|Posted Apr 8, 2012 3:36 pm


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Galloway Resident Chosen Top Air Guard Airman
Joint Force Headquarters-New Jersey (Air), New Jersey Air National Guard, announced the results of the judging for the New Jersey state nominations for the national Air Force Outstanding Airman of the Year Awards program and the Major General Richard "Craig" Cosgrave Chiefs Award.
Galloway resident Senior Airman Bradley S. Ferguson of the 177th Fighter Wing Maintenance Squadron, was chosen as the New Jersey state nomination for the 2009 Airman of Year.
The 177th Fighter Wing led the way taking three of the five New Jersey state nominations for the Air Force Outstanding Airman of the Year Awards as well as garnering the prestigious Chiefs Award.
This was Ferguson's second major award this year, he was also chosen as the winner in the Airman Category for the 2008 Continental United States North American Aerospace Defense Command - First Air Force (Air Forces Northern) Annual Awards.
The other New Jersey state nominations winners are
Tech. Sgt. Jamie L. DeCosta, 177th Fighter Wing Operations Support Flight, was nominated as the 2009 Non-Commissioned Officer of Year.
Chief Master Sgt. Lance C. Endee, 108th Air Refueling Wing Security Forces Squadron, was picked as the 2009 Senior Non-Commissioned Officer of Year award.
Senior Master Sgt. Marie M. Reavis, 108th Air Refueling Wing Civil Engineering Squadron, was nominated as the 2009 First Sergeant of Year.
Staff Sgt. Jamie A. Tonkinson, 177th Fighter Wing Maintenance Squadron, was chosen as the 2009 Honor Guard Member of Year.
Chief Master Sgt. Donald E. Harris, 177th Fighter Wing Civil Engineering Squadron, received the prestigious 2008 Major General Richard "Craig" Cosgrave Chief's Award.
The Air Force Outstanding Airman of the Year Awards, which are selected by the Air Force Chief of Staff at the national level, recognizes 12 enlisted members in a range of grades representing a cross section of the Air Force's career fields. The Airmen are honored at the Air Force Association's annual convention in Washington, D.C. The program was initiated at the Air Force Association's 10th annual national Conference, held in New Orleans in 1956.
Applicants are judged in the three areas. The first, superior leadership and job performance covers how well the Airman performed assigned primary and additional duties and includes any new initiatives or techniques developed by the member that positively impacted the unit and/or the mission. Second is significant self-improvement. Here the judges look at how the applicant has developed or improved skills related to their primary duties. This also includes any off-duty education not directly related to primary duties. In addition, they look at any other training or activity that significantly enhanced the member's value as a military citizen. The last area of judging is community involvement, and personal achievements. This covers the scope and impact of the Airman's positive leadership and involvement in both the military and civilian community.
Ferguson, DeCosta, Endee, Reavis and Tonkinson will now go on to compete at the National Guard Bureau against all the other states. Should they win, they will compete against their active-duty counterparts.


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Sri Lanka's Muslim IDPs 25 years on
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|21 January 2013
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|IRIN, Sri Lanka's Muslim IDPs 25 years on, 21 January 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/50ffedb52.html [accessed 24 January 2018]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
Almost three years after the Sri Lankan government looked into resettling up to 100,000 Muslims displaced from the country's north during the 1983-2009 civil war, thousands of Muslim families still find themselves in limbo, without the means to return to their former homes.
Despite a time lapse of almost 25 years, Abdul Malik still remembers the announcement Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE - separatist rebels fighting for an independent ethnic Tamil state in the north) made on 29 October 1990: All Muslims in Jaffna Peninsula, which included the capital of the war-hit Northern Province (Jaffna), had 24 hours to leave or face forced expulsion and death.
"It was horrible, there were only three [Muslim] families living in the area where we lived. We just left the place we knew as home overnight," said Malik who is now a religious `Moulavi' leader at a small mosque in the northwestern district of Puttalam, where most Muslim families relocated.
Why were they expelled?
While the country's Muslims from the Tamil-dominated north speak Tamil, they are not generally considered ethnically Tamil by Sri Lankans - of all ethnicities - on account of their religion (most Sri Lankan Tamils are Hindus or Christians). The expulsion of Muslims, who made up 5 percent of Northern Province's population before 1990, followed the emergence of a new national Muslim political party, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress. LTTE leaders feared the new party undermined LTTE's goal of a mono-ethnic Tamil state. The few Sinhalese who used to live in Jaffna city were forced out years before Muslims.
LTTE, which at the time controlled most of Jaffna Peninsula, made sure fleeing Muslims did not take with them any household items, furniture, or even land deeds in some cases. Each person could not carry more than US$2.25.
The 30 October 1990 mass flight was the largest forced eviction of Muslims during Sri Lanka's civil war. Researchers estimate close to 75,000 Muslims were forced from their homes during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Where are they now?
Most resettled in northwestern Puttalam District, which already had a sizeable Muslim population. Their number has now swelled to 250,000, according to Colombo-based NGO Law and Society Trust, as well as the Citizens Commission on the Expulsion of Muslims from Northern Province by LTTE in October 1990.
Formed in 2008 the Commission is a collective of Muslim civic groups campaigning for the rights of displaced Muslims.
Almost a quarter of a century after their flight and 44 months since the end of the conflict in May 2009, most are still living in what was intended to be temporary relocation sites.
"They really don't want to go back if there is no guarantee of jobs and housing. So far there is no such guarantee," said Abdul Matheen, a community leader working with displaced Muslims in Puttalam.
Researchers and experts told IRIN that resettling people displaced for years was more complicated than resettling those displaced for a short time.
"They tend to take longer to return and will attempt to rebuild their houses and livelihoods before shifting their entire family [back to their original villages]," said Mirak Raheem, a researcher with local NGO Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA).
Raheem, who specializes in displacement, told IRIN that most displaced Muslims were wary of leaving their current residence because they lacked the means to resettle. "They have lived for so long in displacement and tried to build a life there, they may opt to settle there. This is especially true for the generation borne and brought up in displacement."
What support are they getting?
There are no current government or NGO-supported programmes to facilitate resettlement of displaced Muslims.
The November 2011 report by the government-appointed Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), which looked into the conduct of the war, noted "the treatment given to the Muslim community of the Northern Province has led them to believe that they are at the bottom of the list of priorities of the government, INGOs [international NGOs] and NGOs and the donor community".
Assistance targeting displaced Muslims has been scant; one rare case is the US$34 million World Bank funded Puttalam Housing Project, completed in 2011,which provided 4,460 houses to internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Have Muslims registered to return?
In mid-2010 almost all displaced Muslims registered to return in order to qualify for six months of government-supported rations for returnees, according to Farzana Haniffa, editor of The Quest for Redemption: The Story of the Northern Muslims.
But few actually made the return journey.
Haniffa, who teaches at Colombo University, told IRIN it was up to the government to support the return of Muslim IDPs, most of whom have a closer linguistic affinity to the north. "They speak Tamil, while in Puttalam the working language is Sinhalese."
Are there any local tensions?
In Puttalam, most displaced Muslims continue living off odd-jobs. Decent jobs, especially for youths, are scarce. Malik told IRIN that even after almost 25 years in Puttalam, he still felt alien. "I know that we are still looked upon as second class citizens here."
Matheen, the Puttalam community worker, said dwindling water and land resources, as well as scant jobs, have heightened tensions between Puttalam's native population and Muslim arrivals.
CPA's Raheem told IRIN that if there were enough jobs, schooling, housing and health care in the north, many of the displaced would return. But jobs and housing reconstruction have lagged far behind needs in the former northern war zone.
What about reintegration and reconciliation?
The LLRC report acknowledged Muslims IDPs have been living in "dire conditions" for more than two decades and have had trouble integrating. Muslim IDPs interviewed by the Commission reported not being recognized as IDPs. In addition, they said they were "short-changed" in peace negotiations: their request to participate as an independent delegation was not honoured.
The Commission concluded that Muslims IDPs remain one of the "key post-conflict challenges" with a "significant impact" on reconciliation prospects.
"The Commission is of the view that durable solutions should be found to address this long-standing IDP issue concerning the Muslims evicted from the North, which contains the seeds of disharmony and dissension if it remains unaddressed.


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Cell phone bluetooth microphone quality and issues
Cell phone bluetooth microphone quality and issues
I have better sound transmission with the Model S than I've had on any other car. I've had people I've called ask me what I was doing differently. I use an iphone with Sprint service.
I have no problem with my GS3, my wife's Nexus 4, or my previous phone which was a Galaxy Nexus. I have never had anyone report trouble hearing me using the car's mic.
I just got my car on Saturday and I'm having the same thing with my S3. I think I remember reading in one of the forums that there was an issue with Samsung phones. Either way I love my car and if a little static is all I have to deal with, so be it.
One of my friends frequently complains about the poor call quality when I call him from my car. I have an iPhone5.
Had to buy a Bluetooth headset after getting pulled over using the phone because the quality was so bad.
The voice quality with Galaxy S3's is poor - I've tested two on my Model S - and they work fine in other vehicles - and poor in my Model S.
My previous car (LS 460) had a hidden diagnostics menu that provided fine tuning of the microphone volume. I had a similar problem with that car - and fixed the problem by adjusting the microphone volume setting.
To test this - if you have voice mail - try calling yourself from the car - and then listen to the recording.
I've done that with two different S3 phones - and the voices are distorted - somewhat "robotic" - and can be hard to hear sometime.
I've had voice recognition problems in my car too - which could be related - if the voice sampling is screwed up. I've seen a report that the latest 43 software update has improved voice recognition for someone - so when I update in my car, I'll run another test on the cell phone voice quality.
Only time I've had any issues is when I have the AC up too high.
every call is this way for me.
Quality is best of any car , ever! By far according to the folks I talk to regularly. iPhone 5.
Ive had people tell me the sound from my Tesla blue tooth system is horrible. Ive paired a blackberry 8730 and an Iphone 4 to the car. I didnt believe them until my cousing got HIS model S and called me from HIS car. I hate to be blunt but the sound is HORRIBLE. I plan on asking the technician about this at the service center. Our microphones are just not very good. It is one of the few weaknesses in the car but I can live with it.
Does anyone know exactly where the microphone is located?
iPhone5 seems to sound fine unless the fans are up above 5 or if the sunroof is open.
The sunroof thing is really annoying, I have to close it if I get a call. There should be a wind cut-off for the mic.
I live in SoCal, gotta have the roof open :)
I had terrible bluetooth, couldn't hear or be heard, couldn't use voice commands, etc and Tesla replaced the module that has the microphone in it, since then it's been merely poor, much better, but not good...
Just like @michaelknauf I had a bad mike and voice command never worked since day 1. Tesla diagnosed it and replaced the microphone. Now the voice command is perfect even with soft spoken voice and the phone conversation is so clear, even clearer than holding the phone on ear without using car Bluetooth.
@tvntesla - I've heard other people complain about a bad bluetooth antenna also. Perhaps some combination of the two are at play. I think I'll have to have mine checked as I too have heard it doesn't sound good.
@billbaggy - The microphone is centered just above the windshield.
Try placing your phone in the cubby (below the touchscreen). It helps considerably.
The only problem with that is that I have this irrational fear of getting in an accident, being pinned in the car and not being able to reach the phone because it went flying. I always have it secured in a proper mount or securely in my pocket...
Today, as soon as my iphone5 which was in my pocket sleeping, called an undesirable contact (from my wife's iphone, which shares contacts thanks to icloud) when I came near my parked Tesla outside a Home Depot. 4 times. All in rapid succession. I only heard the 4 th call ringing when I finished loading stuff in the trunk and opened the door to get inside.
I was very annoyed to be explaining to someone who I can barely tolerate, that it was a mistake. He was like '4 times?' . Ugh. Don't know if its my car or the Tesla.


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Love the IOTThank you very much!
I still think these could be improved by allowing download of the archive audio files though...
Excellent serie. Thank you.
Hello from MD
Thank you Brian and Alex
No work with smart grid
Hi From Oregon
thank you
is it a successful design?
good example
present a case study
thank u brian. when will be the next session on embedded systems?
Thanks,Brian. Very informative and good food for thought. Looking forward to a 102 version.
Hi all
Paul O'Brien, ABB, Australia developing a smart grid solution
Thanks Brian and Alex; Great week session
Well, time for me to go. Thanks for your questions Jeffrey.
Question is if you want something that cannot be read from outside the processor.
Many systems contain one of these already in their Ethernet ID.
It would be wrong for them to dictate how something is implemented. Not all vendors may have the necessary hardware capabilities built in and this would be the standards group doing the limitation. They cannot that, they have to allow the industry to do the elimination if necessary.
OK, is see that. I'm thinking of hardware more like a fusable register to hold a value as the basis for a root-of-trust.
As an exmaple - maybe you want to measure the power draw of the system before you actually load anything. That way you can detect a HW configuration change.
But conceptually you just need to implement the TPM spec. I'm not sure if the Trusted Computing Group spec for TPM mandates the TPM be implement in hardware or have hardware support. But I may be wrong.
OK - yes, there is very low level SW but also a lot of HW support for monitoring the system characteristics. You dont want to leave this to SW I suspect.
For trusted program it is sort of BIOS level software, so not sure if you would develop it in the same way. It has to run directly on the HW without OS or virtualization support.
Trusted Platform Module (Slide 9)
Do you mean trusted program?
Is it possible to implement the TPM in software?
In that case, I have not heard of such a usage of AMT with SCADA. But it may exist.
Intels's link - http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/intel-active-management-technology.html
Thanks mclaus
So AMT is the seperate power domain and KVM access.
Gotta jump off early today folks. Its been great - you all have my contact info. Let's stay in touch.
Ah, thanks.
Right I'm just not sure what AMT is reffering to. It can't be Alternative Minimum Tax.
@Juan - it was in the reference implementation but not sure if deployed.
AMT - Active Management Technology
I meant whether AMT has been used in actual SCADA applications.
MMM. Not sure what is goingon. texts stopped getting through
And when we react we tend to fix the symptom not the cause.
As a society we tend to be reactionary. After we have been hit, we react and put better systems in place. Does anyone do backups before they have lost data? Does anyone install security software before they have been infected?
Juan, what did you mean by AMT?
Thank you Brian and Alex! The sessions were very informative.
@Juan - I think the biggest problem today is complacency in all industries that are not subjected to regulations. It is a cost that people do not want to eat.
Thank you.
@Juan - that was in response to your earlier question .
Thanks Brian and Alex, and EETimes, excellent presentation
@Juan - I believe so, but not 100% certain on that.
Brian, in your opinion, are the main security issues in industrial systems today, the management of a wide range of keys, or are there other infrastructure (perhaps) architectural issues as well?
would like to see into to embedded linux system webinar like these in future and we can do simulatiion with virtual lab hardware/software
@Embedded Guy - Thanks for the comment and yes it was high level, but many of the topics we talked about could be a whole course on their own. I hope it sends people in the right direction to get more relevant information.
Good point - thanks
@mclaus - I woyulkd suggest, just as we do with credit cards, that an order and the card information are sent separately. That way at least two parts of the system have to be comproimised before damage can be done.
Thank you Alex and EEtimes team
Thank you Brian and Alex for this great five day session.
I appreciate the heads up on this Internet of Things concept. I realize it was a high level discussion, but it is nice to know that it is going on before it all hits the market (surprise!). Thanks Brian and Alex for great information!
Thanks for a good set of lectures.
thank you Alex nd Brian
thanks to eetimes team also
Thanks so much Brian
@Jeff - many people think it was a large country that was to blame.
Brian / Alex - thanks for putting this together. Very interesting. Hope we do more of these.
I have learned a lot on this Class.
Thank you Brian and Alex.
thank you brain & alex
Thanks Brian and Alex. It's been a great week. See all next time.
Thank you for the lectures Brian, very informative!
There is - but since update in basically an automated process, we have essentially embedded a password into the code - a very bad practice. It is encrypted and known to only a few in our organization, but still it is probably vulnerable to being hacked if somebody were to work at it hard enough. We are planning to change to a dynamically generated key that will be provided via a newwork connection back to our central service organization - but we don't have that infrastructure quote ready yet.
Thank you Brain and Alex for the presentaion.
Relevant Intel Intelligent Systems Framework (ISF) links:
Intel Intelligent Systems Framework page: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/intelligent-systems.html
Intel Embedded Design Center (registration required):
Is there an authentication protocol in the update API?
Stuxnet is very complex and bears the marks of being done by a larger group that had motives beyond simple credit card theft etc. Do we have any idea who they were?
There are ways to re-register the process code with the boot process. During updates, there is an API that get exercises to re-register the new process code. Updates to the boot image contain process registrations already.
Oops, I meant AMT
Has IMT been used with SCADA?
@mclaus, how do you deal with updates? Update both the bootcode and process code?
We ensure that any code that runs on our system is known. The boot process gets the boot image from a known, encrypted, secure source. Any process code that is run after boot must be registered with the boot image and it;'s image much match the one that was registered.
In my world "CIP" is the Common Industrial Protocol.
Here again.
Right now, its usually a propriety standard in a license frequency. Very small amounts of data.
@mclaus - Thanks for the security example!
How does the Smart Meter work?
How does it trasmit it's DATA?
Yes, a follow-on class!
Yes - we sell the 'the ability to treat patients' with our products to our customers over the web. They pay, we download a certain number of treatments into the system to allow them to deliver the treatments. Often we place the equipment of free, but make money by selling the tretments.
A group in China learned to hack the code that allowed download of treatment, as was selling that hack to our customers. Big problem, but we did finally get it resolved.
Most companies do not brag about their security vulnerabilities.
Rockwell is also working on the SmartGrid, in standards and in project space.
@Jeffrey.Fortin FYI: Brian Bailey mentioned yesterday that he is aware of the missing slide numbers.
Working to improve the Smart Grid.
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Unanswered question from earlier in the week: Are there any emerging/existing standards in the area of Management? Brian was going to check into it.
Not working on smartgrid
Sustaining Engineering Project Leader
Titan Logix corp
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Alcon Research, Ltd.
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Hi There from Toronto, interesting Embedded Arrow event in the city yesterday J
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good morning
Hi everyone
good morning all from chilly Edmonton, Alberta
embeeded system really very interesting area and skill to master either window embedded or linux or anyone tried on Mac ?
Good evening from Kuwait little coolish tonight
JUst use the PPT Numbers on the bottom Left corner of the PPT.
Hi Folks. It never rains in Southern California..... except today....
Morning from St. Louis!
And yes today in Portland it is rainy, no sunny, no rainy, no - well it just cant make up its mind.
Yes - I hope it is not at 2pm eastern! I am ready for a 9:00am Pacific start!
@Jeffrey - yes sorry I did not have time yesterday to get them fixed and have them put the new deck up. I will make sure I use the titles.
Hello everyone
Brian, just noticeing that there are no slide numbers on today's deck.
hi all
Good morning one and all!
Hello from Orlando where it's 75°F and sunny
@ awolf58; Is it 2pm not 12:00 PM?
Good morning everyone. Lots of stuff crammed into today's session. I will need to talk fast!
Good Morning from STORMY San Sose, CA.
It's 60°F and a High of 62°F.
2PM Eastern!! No wonder! will be back then.. BFN
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