CSN: Jays jump on Giants early, hang on to win

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TORONTO ? Barry Zito gave up the most hits by a Giants starting pitcher in almost five years Tuesday night. He got battered for six runs in the first inning alone. He wore a facial expression in the dugout that was a mix of ?anger,? ?disappointment? and ?Leafs fan.?

If you told him he was pulled an out away from an official quality start, it probably wouldn?t have made him feel better.

There was nothing quality about the Giants? performance in a 10-6 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre. They committed two errors and countless more miscues, some of them in the outfield where their erratic defense is becoming more than just a casual concern.

The entire team played glazed over ? even catcher Buster Posey, who made the embarrassing mistake of starting an around-the-horn to third base after Colby Rasmus took a called second strike in the seventh inning.

The Giants set a season high by striking out 15 times against R.A. Dickey and Co., too. Brandon Crawford became the first Giant to fit himself for the four-strikeout Golden Sombrero since Ryan Theriot last June.

It took Pablo Sandoval?s three-run home run in the ninth inning just to make the score a little prettier.

But the Blue Jays didn?t blow every bit of a lead that stood at eight runs through seven innings. Toronto teams are only allowed one epic collapse every 48 hours.

Starting pitching report
The last time a Giants pitcher gave up a dozen hits, it was Kevin Correia on July 23, 2008 ? and they still managed to beat the Washington Nationals.

Here?s guessing they played a bit crisper on that day.

Zito (3-2) was not sharp at all, leaving blobs outside at the belt that the Blue Jays? right-handed hitters kept stinging to right field. But he received little defensive support as the Giants looked bewildered, whether it was by the synthetic surface, the harsh indoor lighting or the fact they have $2 coins here.

Three of the six runs Zito allowed in the first inning were unearned. His day began when Sandoval, the third baseman, fielded Melky Cabrera?s grounder to his left and rushed an off-balance throw for a two-base error.

The Blue Jays sent 10 more batters to the plate before Zito got to acquaint himself with the dugout bench again. Mixed amid the six singles and a walk were a bobble in center field by Angel Pagan, a wild throw from right fielder Hunter Pence and a potential double-play ball that stuck in the glove of second baseman Nick Noonan as he lost his footing on the bag.

You could summarize the inning this way: Baserunner Edwin Encarnacion hit the dirt while avoiding getting hit by a line drive off the bat of cleanup hitter (you?re reading this right) Mark DeRosa, then he scored anyway when Pagan flubbed it in center field.

By the fifth inning, eight of the Blue Jays? nine starting position players had a hit.

But Zito did well to recover and at least prevent the Giants bullpen from getting run through ? a helpful service, considering the club begins a four-game series at Coors Field on Thursday.

Amazingly, Zito finished one out away from the minimum standards of a quality start ? at least six innings, no more than three earned runs. He was pulled with two outs and two runners aboard in the sixth.

Those runners scored when the defense had another letdown. Encarnacion hit a hard line drive to right field, Pence appeared to take a tentative route, and the ball soared beyond his reach for a double.

Adam Lind followed with a grounder that took a high bounce off the mound and shortstop Brandon Crawford couldn?t barehand it, bringing in another run.

Bullpen report
Kontos was charged with two runs and Jose Mijares threw a scoreless inning as the Giants managed to save all their frontline relievers.

At the plate
Dickey won the Lowest Average Fastball Velocity Bowl, and it wasn?t even close. The struggling 2012 Cy Young Award winner had one of his better starts while keeping enough of a lid on the Giants through his six innings.

Brandon Belt hit a solo home run and an RBI double, making him 7 for 15 with six RBIs over his past five games.

Marco Scutaro stayed hot as well, hitting three singles to extend his hitting streak to 13 games. He has a .491 average during the streak. He owns multiple hits in seven consecutive games, too.

But the heart of the order, Sandoval and Buster Posey, were 0 for 8 before the Panda went deep in the ninth.

In field
In addition to the calamities already described, there was Maicer Izturis? double off Gregor Blanco?s glove in left field in the fifth inning.

At least Nick Noonan made a full-extension dive to take a hit away from Henry Blanco in the sixth. It made little difference in the outcome, but it made a big difference to? Blue Jays? Blanco was the only starter who didn?t have a hit.

Attendance
The Blue Jays delighted a crowd of 31,753 by holding onto an eight-run lead.

Up next
The Giants and Blue Jays complete this little two-game series Wednesday night at the House Formerly Known as SkyDome. Ryan Vogelsong (1-3, 7.78 ERA) takes the mound against right-hander Ramon Ortiz (0-1. 3.24). The Blue Jays decided to push back right-hander Brandon Morrow, who is dealing with recurring upper back spasms.

Source: http://www.csnbayarea.com/blog/andrew-baggarly/instant-replay-six-run-first-dooms-giants

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Cydia, The Alternative App Store For Jailbroken Apple Devices, Now Runs On Android

Cydia, a platform commonly thought of as the alternative app store for jailbroken iPhones and iPads, has just today arrived on Android?of all places. Though Android is by its nature more open and customizable than Apple's locked-down iOS, it now has a growing collection of apps designed for power users who root their devices - a process that's similar in spirit to the iOS jailbreak. Cydia for Android could soon become home to some of those same tweaks in time - or at least allow developers to port them to the Android ecosystem, whether or not they're housed in Cydia directly.

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Frisky business? LinkedIn evicts little-known 'red-light district' - NBC ...

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Helen A.S. Popkin NBC News

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LinkedIn profile established by "courtesan" Sonja Bandolik, who practices legal prostitution. Bandolik is currently the madam of the Alien Cathouse in Carson City, Nev.

A run-of-the-mill LinkedIn user agreement update has revealed that the professional networking site has been an unwilling host to the world?s oldest profession.

On Monday ? as part of what a LinkedIn representative described as a standard simplification to its policies ? the site added this eye-catching clause to the section titled ?Don?t undertake the following?:

Even if it is legal where you are located, create profiles or provide content that promotes escort services or prostitution.

Prostitution, legal or not, has never been allowed on LinkedIn, Hani Durzy, LinkedIn?s director of corporate communications, told NBC News. Describing the salacious attention brought by the staid social network?s terms revision as ?a baffling non-story,? Durzy emphasized that nothing at LinkedIn has changed. ?We took the opportunity to make it clear that local laws are not relevant to what we will or won?t allow.?

Attention leads to curiosity, however. And whether or not it?s permitted by law or by LinkedIn user agreement, promotions for prostitution and escort services are indeed visible on LinkedIn. At least they were before Tuesday?s media onslaught.

NBC News used obvious keywords to quickly find dozens of listings for escort services in the United States and United Kingdom, along with plenty of questionable entries for ?sensual massage? and sex-themed ?independent entertainment professionals.? Not all the listings were even thinly veiled, either. We also found ?courtesans? and ?working girls? proclaiming their employment at legal brothels operating in the U.S.

For example, Sonja Bandolik described herself on LinkedIn as a "courtesan at Dovetail Ranch Brothel," which she told NBC News is a bit out-of-date. (She's currently madam at the Alien Cathouse near "Area 51.") "There's no place for judgment in my bedroom," reads her profile, which offers a link to her "sex menu" at an outside website.

As LinkedIn?s rules now clarify, even legal prostitution violates the user agreement.

This is news to Dennis Hof, owner of several legal Nevada brothels, including the infamous Moonlite Bunny Ranch, and LinkedIn member since 2012. ?What?s the problem? We have a license to do this,? said Hof, whose employees also have LinkedIn accounts. ?Our business is as legal as theirs. We?re the good guys. We have no reason to be knocked off.?

Hof, who says he?s the highest taxpayer in Lyon County, relies on social media ? and publicity ? to spread the word about his business, since advertising prostitution in Nevada is illegal, even where prostitution is not.

?LinkedIn needs to realize they don?t need to filter out legal businesses in America,? he said. ?These are businesswomen, and some of them are making mid-six-figure incomes.? Hof hopes LinkedIn doesn't try to remove his account, or the accounts of his employees.

?If it?s OK to do that, is it OK to drop Dairy Queen too because it serves too much fat and calories? Is LinkedIn going to be the moral arbiter, and drop Coca-Cola or anybody who works for a cigarette company? Where do you stop with that??

LinkedIn

Listings for "people also viewed" on Nevada brothel empresario Dennis Hof's LinkedIn page include "working girls," "courtesans" and "escorts." Sonja Bandolik's name is used with her permission.

Exactly how LinkedIn identifies and deals with users who violate LinkedIn?s terms of service ? and whether the terms update would be followed by an active purge ? isn?t something Durzy was willing to share with NBC News.

?We have 225 million members, and we get billions of page views every quarter. There?s lots of activity happening on the site. Like most social networks and platforms, we rely on our community bringing things to our attention,? he said, adding that employees also comb the site for egregious activity.

?I?m not saying we?re going to do a purge, though we very well may,? he said. ?In a nutshell, as we become aware of profiles that violate our policies we will take the appropriate actions. Does that mean shutting them down on day one? Or giving our members the benefit of the doubt, and telling them that?s a violation and you?ve got change it? There is no hard and fast rule. We take the appropriate action as necessary.?

When NBC News did a spot check later in the day, we observed that LinkedIn may have begun a process of making self-proclaimed prostitutes harder to find, or even removing them from the site altogether.

"In the last 12 hours, we?ve been made aware through the news cycle of various profiles and some actions may have been taken against profiles that violate our policies," Durzy said when NBC News asked about the missing profiles, but he wouldn't specify how many profiles had been removed. "That?s policy in action."

Helen A.S. Popkin is Deputy Technology & Science editor for NBCNews.com and TODAY. Follow her on Twitter and Facebook.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/frisky-business-linkedin-evicts-little-known-red-light-district-1C9911883

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Windows "Blue" Is Officially Called Windows 8.1 and Free

Microsoft just announced on a call with shareholders that the Windows Blue update will officially be called Windows 8.1, which will be a free update. It'll be available for both Windows 8 and Windows RT.

A preview will be available to the public after the Microsoft Build conference. Windows 8.1 is expected to fix a lot of the biggest concerns users had with the Metro interface, without completely abandoning the concept.

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Builders bulldoze big Mayan pyramid in Belize

BELIZE CITY (AP) ? A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities announced on Monday.

The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Jaime Awe, said the destruction at the Nohmul complex in northern Belize was detected late last week. The ceremonial center dates back at least 2,300 years and is the most important site in northern Belize, near the border with Mexico.

"It's a feeling of Incredible disbelief because of the ignorance and the insensitivity ... they were using this for road fill," Awe said. "It's like being punched in the stomach, it's just so horrendous."

Nohmul sat in the middle of a privately owned sugar cane field, and lacked the even stone sides frequently seen in reconstructed or better-preserved pyramids. But Awe said the builders could not possibly have mistaken the pyramid mound, which is about 100 feet tall, for a natural hill because the ruins were well-known and the landscape there is naturally flat.

"These guys knew that this was an ancient structure. It's just bloody laziness", Awe said.

Photos from the scene showed backhoes clawing away at the pyramid's sloping sides, leaving an isolated core of limestone cobbles at the center, with what appears to be a narrow Mayan chamber dangling above one clawed-out section.

"Just to realize that the ancient Maya acquired all this building material to erect these buildings, using nothing more than stone tools and quarried the stone, and carried this material on their heads, using tump lines," said Awe. "To think that today we have modern equipment, that you can go and excavate in a quarry anywhere, but that this company would completely disregard that and completely destroyed this building. Why can't these people just go and quarry somewhere that has no cultural significance? It's mind-boggling."

Belizean police said they are conducting an investigation and criminal charges are possible. The Nohmul complex sits on private land, but Belizean law says that any pre-Hispanic ruins are under government protection.

The Belize community-action group Citizens Organized for Liberty Through Action called the destruction of the archaeological site "an obscene example of disrespect for the environment and history."

It is not the first time it's happened in Belize, a country of about 350,000 people that is largely covered in jungle and dotted with hundreds of Mayan ruin sites, though few as large as Nohmul.

Norman Hammond, an emeritus professor of archaeology at Boston University who worked in Belizean research projects in the 1980s, wrote in an email that "bulldozing Maya mounds for road fill is an endemic problem in Belize (the whole of the San Estevan center has gone, both of the major pyramids at Louisville, other structures at Nohmul, many smaller sites), but this sounds like the biggest yet."

Arlen Chase, chairman of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Central Florida, said, "Archaeologists are disturbed when such things occur, but there is only a very limited infrastructure in Belize that can be applied to cultural heritage management."

"Unfortunately, they (destruction of sites) are all too common, but not usually in the center of a large Maya site," Chase wrote.

He said there had probably still been much to learn from the site. "A great deal of archaeology was undertaken at Nohmul in the '70s and '80s, but this only sampled a small part of this large center."

Belize isn't the only place where the handiwork of the far-flung and enormously prolific Maya builders is being destroyed. The ancient Mayas spread across southeastern Mexico and through Guatemala, Honduras and Belize.

"I don't think I am exaggerating if I say that every day a Maya mound is being destroyed for construction in one of the countries where the Maya lived," wrote Francisco Estrada-Belli, a professor at Tulane University's Anthropology Department.

"Unfortunately, this destruction of our heritage is irreversible but many don't take it seriously," he added. "The only way to stop it is by showing that it is a major crime and people can and will go to jail for it."

Robert Rosenswig, an archaeologist at the State University of New York at Albany, described the difficult and heartbreaking work of trying to salvage information at the nearby site of San Estevan following similar destruction around 2005.

"Bulldozing damage at San Estevan is extensive and the site is littered with Classic period potsherds," he wrote in an academic paper describing the scene. "We spent a number of days at the beginning of the 2005 season trying to figure out the extent of the damage .... after scratching our heads for many days, a bulldozer showed up and we realized that what appear to be mounds, when overgrown with chest-high vegetation, are actually recently bulldozed garbage piles."

However small the compensation, bulldozing pyramids is one very brutal way of revealing the inner cores of the structures, which were often built up in periodic stages of construction.

"The one advantage of this massive destruction, to the core site, is that the remains of early domestic activity are now visible on the surface," Rosenswig wrote.

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Associated Press writer Patrick E. Jones reported this story in Belize and Mark Stevenson reported from Mexico City.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/builders-bulldoze-big-mayan-pyramid-belize-225012836.html

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Monster radiation burst from Sun

14 May 2013 Last updated at 07:55 ET

The Sun has unleashed its most powerful eruption of 2013 so far.

The solar flare - a sudden release of radiation - peaked at 1705 BST on Monday, and was associated with a huge eruption of matter.

When these eruptions reach Earth, they can interfere with electronic systems in satellites and those on the ground.

Nasa said this solar explosion - known as a coronal mass ejection (CME) - was not directed at Earth, but it could pass several US spacecraft.

The event on Monday was classified as an "X-class" flare - the most intense type - with a designation of X2.8 (higher numbers denote a stronger flare). It surpassed an X1.7-class flare that occurred 14 hours earlier.

They are the first X-class events to occur this year.

When intense enough, a flare can disturb the Earth's atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.

This disrupts the radio signals for as long as the flare is ongoing - the radio blackout associated with this flare has since subsided.

CMEs can be even more disruptive because they can send billions of tonnes of solar particles into space. In those cases when very strong eruptions do reach Earth, the charged matter can blow out transformers in power grids.

The so-called Carrington Event of 1-2 September 1859 shorted telegraph wires, starting fires in North America and Europe, and caused bright aurorae (northern and southern lights) to be seen in Cuba and Hawaii.

The CME associated with this flare may pass the Stereo-B and Spitzer spacecraft. The operators of those science missions can choose to put their spacecraft into a "safe mode" to protect the electronics in onboard instruments from being tripped.

Increased numbers of flares are expected at the moment because the Sun's normal 11-year activity cycle is approaching a "high" of activity - known as a solar maximum.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22525233#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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