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Grasping Evil - Chapter 280
Retribution from Luo Yun (4)
Lu Daochen and Qu Shun went down from the purple platform one after another. Both of them had come to an agreement that the second match of the fight would be temporarily stopped at this point. It would only be resumed when Wang Xiao and Ning Fan both recover from their injuries.
Now, the purple platform was only left with Ning Fan and Wang Xiao.
The final showdown… The last move to be displayed had to be their strongest attacks.
The purple mist-like sand gradually dispersed from the tip of Ning Fan's finger while his eyes were staring at the two types of cold qi summoned by an indifferent Wang Xiao.
"Lu Bei, in this final clash, I will attack you first and you will defend against my attack. Afterwards, we will exchange roles and you can attack me instead!"
"That's fine by me!"
What Wang Xiao had in his mind was to take advantage of Ning Fan by initiating his attack first. As for Ning Fan, he was pondering how to give Wang Xiao a fatal blow.
At first glance, the arrangement might seem to be unfavorable to Ning Fan as he could only attack afterwards, but there was actually an advantage in his position. When Wang Xiao completely exhausts his energy, Ning Fan could then activate his Wind Mist Finger without any hesitation.
Ning Fan consumed a pill to regulate his breathing and treated his internal wounds. Then, his five fingers turned into a claw and struck at the great land displaying the Soul Extraction. Within a short period of time, his aura rose drastically.
Although it was the second time he displayed that technique in front of everyone, its profoundness was still able to make the crowd click their tongues in admiration. However, it caused Wang Xiao's expression to become gloomy.
"A playful act for the peanut gallery! I acknowledge that you are a strong expert. However, you still don't seem to understand how vast the difference is between an ant from the mortal world and a member of the True Spirit Race of the Upper World! Just like Zou Teng who was granted the Freesia Cold Qi, I was given two types of Fifth Grade Cold Qi as well as the Cold Ice Mark. You won't survive this move!"
Wang Xiao stopped speaking and abruptly pressed the two cold qi on both of his palms against each other. The severe coldness emitted the sound of freezing ice which then spread in all directions. At that moment, his entire body sent out an ice-colored shadow of a moon. Darkness fell upon the surroundings once again.
The darkness was just a diversion that foreshadowed the cold ice moon in the sky!
"Ice Wheel…"
A voice that contained neither sadness nor happiness echoed from Wang Xiao's mouth. He seemed to have changed into a different person. His tone was abnormally sonorous. The two cold qi were fused together by him using some kind of strange technique, turning into a snowstorm that was full of purple ice particles. In a brief moment, it enveloped heaven and earth entirely.
Above the night sky, an ice moon slowly appeared. That originally crescent moon was gradually turning into a full moon after being replenished by the power of the cold qi. All of a sudden, a sharp menacing eye seemed to have grown on the full moon.
Just as the bizarre eye emerged on the ice moon, the skies were frozen whereas the clouds were frosted. When Wang Xiao's hand sign changed, circles of purple-iced halos surrounded the moon.
"Ice Wheel, First Revolution! Second Revolution! Third Revolution!"
After the halos made three revolutions, the eye of the moon shot out an ancient piercing light which solidified and spread into the shape of a fishnet. The space wherever the fishnet enwrapped was frozen, turning every living creature into ice. That net woven with ice mesh gave out an extreme coldness, emanating an aura comparable to that of a High Grade Divine Transformation Realm demonic technique.
Moreover, under the help of the two Heavenly Cold Qi, the destructive power of that technique was further enhanced to a greater level, closely approaching that of a Peak Divine Transformation Realm technique!
"Using the moon as frost, taking the coldness of the night. We, the owl race occupy the skies! Anyone who defy us shall perish!"
Wang Xiao's eyes brightly glowed with cold light and soared into the sky with a loud roar. Then, he stopped and pointed his finger at Ning Fan.
The enormous ice net immediately stretched out towards Ning Fan, leaving no room for him to escape. In that scene, Ning Fan was like a tiny fish that was about to be caught in the net.
Facing that technique, Ning Fan's heart felt a sense of extreme danger. However, he was still gathering the golden-purple sand within his right hand. Without any hesitation, he summoned the grey flames with his left hand which shot up into the sky with an unimaginable speed, turning into nine grey fire dragons.
The nine fire dragons charged at the ice net in succession. However, as soon as they came into contact with the net, the first eight dragons were literally turned into ice and were extinguished, leaving only a single dragon. It brutally knocked against the net, burning a hole in the ice net. It then poured out all of its remaining power of flames, creating a bigger breach by burning along the hole.
Ning Fan flapped his purple demon wings and flew up into the sky, escaping the area covered by the net from the hole.
The movement of the net was extremely fast but Ning Fan's speed was even faster!
"Impossible! You are just an Early Divine Transformation Realm expert. How could you attain such speed?! However, if you think you are able to escape from the ice net just like that, you're utterly wrong. The range of the net is everywhere under the moon!"
Although Ning Fan had avoided the net, his facial expression did not seem to relax because as he was basking in the moonlight, his body was gradually being frozen.
The ice net was just a decoy. The true power of the technique was the moonlight of the ice moon.
As Wang Xiao sneered, the cold moon disintegrated, and broke into countless silk-like threads forming an ice cocoon around Ning Fan.
Slowly, the ice cocoon became larger. The power of coldness within the cocoon increased by one time for every one hundred zhang* it grew. When the cocoon had grown into nine hundred zhang*, its ice power was more than enough to freeze any ordinary Late Divine Transformation Realm experts to death!
"Go to hell!"
With a pair of cold eyes, Wang Xiao changed his hand seals, detonating the ice cocoon. Its ice power was unleashed in all directions, shattering the Void Realm!
In just a single breath, the entire Luo Yun Province was turned into a city of ice under the effect of the ice power.
In the center of the explosion, there was nothing left other than a mass of black shadows.
"Lu Bei is dead! Hahaha!"
Wang Xiao laughed maliciously with pleasure. However, he felt it was rather strange when he could not find Ning Fan's storage pouch after he was killed.
The magnitude of strength and power that I used should not have destroyed his storage pouch. But even if the storage pouch was destroyed, the map pieces would not disappear as they are made of unique ingredients. Of course, the Purple Lightning Hammers won't vanish either.
If there is no sign of them here, I suppose they might have been dragged into the Void Realm by wind storms when the skies were broken open.
However, Wang Xiao did not feel relaxed. The side effect of displaying "Ice Moon" was severe as he activated that secret technique by force while his body was already greatly wounded. Now, since the enhancement of his Cold Ice Mark had lost its effectiveness, his four limbs and bones were being consumed by the power of ice.
Dead silence fell upon the entire arena. The technique that Wang Xiao had just displayed was indeed terrifying. Besides, since Ning Fan did not display any technique that was up to the mark, it was not strange that he was killed by it…
Especially the members of the Luo Yun Tribe, each of the demon cultivators were dispirited, thinking that Ning Fan had really been killed.
Only Lu Wan'er took a step forward confidently with her eyes gazing into the vast sky staring at the purple rays which had yet to disperse and said, "No… Lu Bei won't die!"
"Right! Before my enemies are all dead, how can I die so easily?"
An indifferent, cold voice echoed.
At this moment, the purple rays that filled the sky refracted the most dazzling purple light.
At this moment, the black shadow condensed, forming into a man in black robes.
His countenance was expressionless and his eyes were pure black. The left side of his face had a demonic mark.
The face of this black-robed young man was deathly pale. He coughed out a mouthful of fresh blood which contained some ice residues. Even though he displayed the Black Tempest Rupture Art, he was still grievously injured under Wang Xiao's technique.
Nevertheless, he did not die!
Sense Soul Incarnation Chant allowed one to disintegrate and condense. It was a profound ability that enables one to turn their bodies into the void. Besides, it involved the principle of illusions which could only be comprehended by Void Fragmentation Realm experts.
Because an incarnation was difficult to kill, this technique was listed as one of the three Void Fragmentation Realm techniques. Furthermore, even Void Fragmentation Realm old monsters would normally desire to learn and master this technique.
After being encased by the ice cocoon and torn apart by the ice power, Ning Fan's injuries were definitely not light.
However, thanks to these injuries, Ning Fan gained an unprecedented insight about the Sense Soul Incarnation Chant!
"Sense Soul Incarnation… In the past, I used to think that the 'Sense Soul' represents the spirit sense and soul respectively. However, after displaying it for multiple times, I feel that these two words aren't as simple as they sound… The 'Sense' here means one's stubbornness while the 'Soul' represents one's courage! Without courage, one would not be daring enough to crush his own body in order to avoid an attack. Without stubbornness, one would not have the willpower to congeal his body once more! This is the true meaning of the Sense Soul Incarnation Chant! I'm not sure about courage but I do have stubbornness!"
He crushed his body and congealed it again, repeating the process over and over again!
Each time he congealed his body from the black shadows, the injuries which were originally on his body gradually healed.
"He is performing self-recovery using his incarnations?!" Imperial Concubine Zi's lips were slightly agape for the first time.
Incarnation was a type of illusory body which was totally different than a clone or a defensive divine ability.
One has to at least attain the Void Fragmentation Realm in order to condense their incarnations. As for cultivating the incarnation to the level where one could use it as a means for self-recovery, ordinary Void Fragmentation Realm experts were unable to achieve that.
Imperial Concubine Zi did not know why Ning Fan, a mere Early Divine Transformation Realm expert, would be able to learn secret arts like this.
She also did not have any idea how keen his understanding was as he discovered the self-recovery effect from the incarnation technique on his own.
Her dazzling eyes turned to Imperial Concubine Wu Yan, recalling the advice she had given her earlier.
"Don't provoke Lu Bei!"
"This man really has a heaven-defying potential for being able to comprehend two Void Fragmentation Realm techniques. Even I should not be offending him… However, he isn't a member of the demon race! This is an undeniable fact!"
The black shadow congealed into the shape of a man. Ning Fan lifted his finger and activated his Wind Mist Technique and directed it at Wang Xiao.
Wang Xiao was completely stupefied. He could not understand why Ning Fan could survive after he had directly taken the brunt of the ice power attack!
He also could not understand why Ning Fan's finger which was emitting golden-purple sand would give him such an intense sense of danger.
The only thing he knew for now was that he must retreat. However, after displaying his attack earlier, his strength was completely depleted.
Meanwhile, Ning Fan's aura was continuously rising while he was repeating the same action of crushing himself into shadows and congealing his body.
That was a display of great courage, a stubbornness that would never be changed even if he were to die a million times!
I must protect my loved ones… Before they are safe, I won't die, no matter how many times I have to destroy myself!
"Time is just like flowing sand while old age is just a period of time which has passed… Purple Technique, Wind Mist!"
The purple rays in the sky magnified and purple clouds scattered. The cold ice of the Luo Yun Province melted and was replaced by purple mist-like sand, blowing against the entire province!
The wind blew once again. This time, however, it was Ning Fan who reversed the motion of the wind!
As he displayed his Wind Mist Finger, Wang Xiao intended to flee but his hope was crushed when Ning Fan raised his other finger.
Dark red threads of Ning Fan's aura force entered Wang Xiao's demon body, binding him up from within.
For the first time, Wang Xiao felt terrified. However, to mask his cowardice, he angrily roared.
"Impossible! Why would you have so many heaven-defying means?! You're just an ant from the mortal world!"
"Impossible?! I've even done crazier things than this! Do you want to know about them?!"
Yes. The craziest thing that Ning Fan had ever done was not fighting ten thousand human sharks alone, nor was it eliminating a Nascent Soul Realm expert while he was just a Harmonious Spirit Realm cultivator and not even wiping out the entire Demon Sinister Forest couldn't be considered as such…but it was ascending the Heavenly Court and injuring an Immortal Emperor in the body of a mortal butterfly!
The body of a mortal butterfly might be insignificant but the stubbornness it possessed was indeed terrifying…
As he unleashed the power of his finger, the whole city was filled with dust and sand. Even the shining spears and armored horses for military use had all disappeared.
After a brief moment passed when Wang Xiao was drawn into the purple sand, he shockingly realized that he was aging at an incredible speed while his armor, robes as well as his cultivation level gradually vanished.
Disappeared? Where did they go?
Only Ning Fan knew that the lost items were devoured by samsara!
Humans had samsara. Immortals had samsara. No matter how long one could live, nothing was able to escape from samsara!
Wang Xiao's mind was flooded with memories of his entire life. Gradually, the tediously long thoughts within his mind became vague and hard to see.
The white hair on his scalp began to fall. His handsome appearance began to be full of wrinkles.
Eventually, one of his arms had actually started to decay.
He moved his other hand, trying to grasp the remaining ashes from his decayed arm. But as he exerted his strength, his entire body was reduced to ashes.
His demon soul had also disintegrated without a trace.
He had literally vanished in a puff of smoke.
"He's dead?! Wang Xiao was killed by this man with just a single move… What is that sand?!"
Qu Shun felt a hint of terror for the first time.
The Luo Yun Province was in utter silence. But in the next moment, the silence was broken with deafening cheers.
"General Bei is mighty!"
An Early Divine Transformation Realm had killed a Late Divine Transformation Realm expert! (To be continued…)
Translated by Tommy, edited by Roel
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As an anti-aging enthusiast I am a great believer in trying things myself before recommending them to my clients. In all honesty, there are times when I have regretted my "philosophy". I can't remember the first time I used DERMAL FILLERS, however I do remember early on when I spent many anxious days waiting for the bruises and lumpiness settled down. Wait! Don't panic! Fillers are not uncharted territory. They were FDA approved more than 20 years ago and dermal fillers work!
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HOWEVER…as we age the underlying structures of our face (fat and dermis) start to thin causing hollows, creases and sagging. Think of it like a couch. The wood frame is like the bones of our face, the springs and the padding/fill are similar to the fat and dermis of our skin. With age the couch springs breakdown and the padding/fill becomes compacted or misshapen. Although the fabric may be in good shape, the underlying support is gone making the couch look old and worn out. This is where dermal fillers can work magic. They can literally take years off of your appearance by augmenting lost volume in your face. Many things have been written about the areas of the face that can be treated. But, here are few things you may not know about DERMAL FILLERS…
I once heard a great analogy "performing a filler treatment is like painting a picture… it is impossible to achieve optimal results with just one type of filler as it is impossible to paint a masterpiece with one color." Fillers come in a wide variety with differing physical characteristics. THANK GOODNESS! Each area of your face is so unique that a "one-size-fits-all" strategy would be a disaster. Can you imagine using the same filler for your lips as your cheeks? Well – I can't. Fillers used for the cheek area are injected much deeper and are thicker to support the "framework". The thought of putting that in your delicate lips makes me cringe! Don't be afraid to ask questions of your skin specialist. If they propose a single filler type for every area of your face – RUN!
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Some people say the problem is fillers are addictive. I can't really say if it is an addiction or the drive for perfection. Remember when it comes to filler, MORE doesn't equal perfection! What is most important is the RIGHT amount to create a MORE youthful, natural result!
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I try not to pay to much attention to the presidential candidates at this point. I pretty much know who my guy is. Most of the rest of the jabbering they do doesn't serve any purpose for me. But you just can't seem to escape every breath Donald Trump takes these days. It seems he is offending some one new every day, which apparently he is good at. Even with me avoiding network news for the most part, there is something every day on the book of faces, or the various news sights I do check. I keep hoping he will run out of steam but he keeps going.
Well I ain't buying it. Was curious at first but have gotten over that pretty quick. I have no doubt that he is a huckster, a charlatan, a PT Barnum, a showman if you will, that is in it for only himself. He has managed to buffalo a good portion of the electorate if you believe the polls. Well, that's just what his kind do. He has just managed to do it on the biggest stage instead of the usual smaller ones his type controls.
Somehow he has tapped into the discontent of a large portion of the 'right.' There is no doubt that the right is desperate to get someone elected President that they hope will save us from hillary and everything that has been done by the current occupier. I get it, I truly do. But have they lost their good sense in following this guy?
I was approached by a friend that is more Libertarian than I am and wanted to know my thoughts on Trump. We always talk about politics, we are pretty close in our thoughts. I just tend to place greater emphasis on some issues and he on others but we agree most every where. So when he asked about Trump, I kinda went off. The above is pretty much what I said except with a tone of disgust. I told him I was pretty saddened by the fact that those that have bought into Trump are that gullible. That I couldn't believe we had fallen so far so fast as to think this wack job is a viable candidate. Then I remembered what we have now. SMH. His wife asked me if I would vote if he was the candidate finally. I told her this would probably be the first election I would sit out. That got Romney mentioned and how he lost due to so many conservatives sitting it out. I still wasn't buying it. I flat out told them I still believe Trump is a liberal and is only in it for himself no one else. He has made a mockery of everything conservatives believe and now he has gone as far to portray himself as a Bible believer. Really? I think most see through that, don't they?
I keep thinking he will finally blow up his chances with some other stupid move and he will be done. It's gone a lot further than I thought it would. I hold out hope.
OK, I'm done now.
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STA: DJedi vs Elemental Dragons
This match we played Elemental Dragons, {ED} on CTF_Turbine. This was our first match on this map and we didn't really know what to expect.
The 1st round started out on our server and ended up with us pushing them back to their respawn hallway and holding them while heineken ran caps as scout. 1st Round ended up 23-2 DJedi.
The 2nd round we got a little silly as lunk switched from Soldier to Scout. I think Polar switched from Soldier to Engineer for a little while and put a gun up in the middle. We held the enemy in their hallway with a soldier/medic/demoman combo at each door and while lunk and hein ran relay caps in the background. We played no D on turbine and it showed, letting up 7 caps. The 2nd round ended 32-7 DJedi.
Final Score: 23-2, 32-7, DJedi over {ED} 55-9


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Previously we mentioned about Apple's white iPhone 4 delay due to opacity and thickness issue from its contract manufacturer, but seems that more and more signs indicating that the white iPhone 4 could be available as earlier as February 27th.
If you wonder how could this production yield issue get resolved, the recently online source revealed that the Cupertino-based company has co-worked with a Japanese company to develop a new paint material that is claimed to be able to have better control and precision in terms of exact paint layer thickness. If you recall, Apple has tried hard to mass produce white iPhone 4 but due to the nature of material and stringent requirements, they can merely produce three success panels every hour in order to get a pure white color while able to sustain sufficient space for digitizer overlay. And now with the magic paint, the yield loss has been reduced significantly, potentially allowing the white iPhone 4 to be on track for spring release.
Apparently, the lacking of color selection doesn't impact its demand that can be proven by huge volume of 16.2 million units even for last quarter alone. However, some are willing to pay for higher premium just to get 'white' iPhone from unofficial overseas supply chain as shown in some retail shops in Hong Kong.


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Parsley Pesto
I often buy a bag of fresh herbs for a particular dish, use a small amount and then end up throwing the rest away. Not anymore! You could adapt this recipe to use any or a mixture of your favourite fresh herbs and store little pots of delicious pesto in your freezer for quick mid-week pasta meals.
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- 30g flat leaf parsley (stalks removed)
- 1-2 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
- 40g freshly grated parmesan cheese
- 30g pine nuts
- 75ml (4 tbsp) extra virgin olive oil
- Pinch of salt
- Place the parsley, garlic, cheese and pine nuts in a food processor and whiz for a few seconds.
- Add the oil and salt and whiz again.
- This recipe makes enough pesto for approx 4 servings (pasta serving = 100g)
- Nutritional Information per serving: 250 calories, 25g fat, 1.9g carbohydrate, 5.4g protein
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The U.S. Patent Office has been busy approving some wacky payment ideas and we're going to periodically tell you about some of our favorites. The winners this week are two unrelated ideas on mobile-based authentication from PayPal and MasterCard—including the length of a shopper's finger, how they walk and bits of their voice conversations—plus a MasterCard idea on exploring weather-to-purchase correlations on an individualized basis.
PayPal Patent Awarded For Finger Length
This Patent, issued on Tuesday (Dec. 1), is based on the length of a consumer's finger in a secondary fashion. What it actually does is ask the user to create a specific drawing, a task that will be done in a unique way by consumers because of their hand designs and other factors.
The idea is to "require the user to perform an action with the hand many times that is recorded by a biometric sensor. Then, to authenticate, the user is again asked to perform the action. The performed action is compared to the recorded actions to determine how closely the performed action matches the recorded actions, wherein enough similarity results in a successful authentication," according to the issued patent. "The idea is that, due to the differences between individual user's hands, there is enough entropy that even if an attacker sees a user performing the action, it is unlikely that the attacker has the same hand and, thus, the action will be performed differently. However, this authentication method does not understand what a hand looks like, but only asks that the user memorize the action so that they can perform it when asked."
MasterCard On A More Passive Authentication. A Little Phonecall Eavesdropping?
This Patent is focused on gathering verification data before the shopper has made the transaction.
The idea with this one is that "a payment-enabled mobile device applies one or more passive CVM processes on an ongoing basis to provide a primary or supplemental assurance that the payment-enabled mobile device remains in the possession of the authorized user. The term passive means that the user is not prompted to submit input to the CVM process. Among other possible CVM processes that may occur in accordance of teachings of this disclosure, there may be an automated facial recognition of the user via a forward-facing camera on the payment-enabled mobile device and/or a voice recognition algorithm applied to the user's utterances during telephone calls using the device and/or an analysis of the user's gait while walking, as detected via one or more motion sensing components of the device. The passive CVM process may occur in background to other processes implemented by the device, such that the user is not even aware that the passive CVM process is occurring."
MasterCard: Everyone Complains About The Weather But No Ever Uses It To Target Coupons
This Patent is potentially our favorite. It overlays all CRM data—especially purchase history—of customers against the weather happening at those times at those locations. The theory: Do specific shoppers buy specific items when it rains? When it snows? Do they appear to make those purchases in anticipation of those weather events or as a result of them? If a pattern is found, can consumer purchase behaviors be predicted, allowing for extremely relevant offers to sent moments before the shopper will likely be considering that purchase?
This could be, according to Patent, "a system for generating targeted advertisements for leisure expenditures according to current or forecasted weather, the system comprising: one or more data storage devices containing payment card transaction data of a plurality of customers, the payment card transaction data including at least customer information, geographical information and information identifying a category of good or service associated with the transaction; a source of historic weather data; a source of current or forecasted weather data; one or more processors; a memory in communication with the one or more processors and storing program instructions, the one or more processors operative with the program instructions to: identify payment card transactions relating to leisure expenditures; identify correlations between the identified payment card transactions related to leisure expenditures and weather conditions contemporaneous to said transactions; store identified correlations according to at least one profile category associated with a customer; identify a predicted future leisure expenditure based on current or forecasted weather conditions for one or more profile categories, and generate an advertisement for said predicted leisure expenditure."


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With over 18 years of experience in the wireless communication, data and GPS industry, Ashutosh Pande is currently the Managing Director of SiRF India and VP Marketing at SiRF USA.
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With over 18 years of experience in the wireless communication, data and GPS industry, Ashutosh Pande is currently the Managing Director of SiRF India and VP Marketing at SiRF USA. Prior to joining SiRF, he was founder and CEO of MicroCom Consulting, LLC. He has also worked for Intel, Japan Radio and NovAtel Communications. He holds seven patents and has over 15 patents pending. Ashutosh shares his ideas, vision and understanding of the Positioning and Location based industry with GIS Development, in an exclusive interview.
Today, SiRF Technology is an established name in the positioning and location based industry worldwide. Tell us something about the journey of SiRF since its start just 10 years ago.
In 1995, SiRF Technology, Inc. was founded. The intention was simple – to bring GPS technology and other wireless communications innovations to the masses. The idea was to reach out to as many and the widest possible range of consumer applications. Over the last 10 years, the company has developed path breaking techniques and extensive experience in GPS, spread-spectrum, radio frequency (RF), semiconductor, software and communications technologies. In just a decade, we are able to concentrate our resources on developing high-performance, cost-effective and high-quality chip set, IP and software solutions that will serve high-growth markets such as consumer GPS navigation and wireless communications. SiRF operates as a Location Technology Company providing end to end system solutions where the delivery mechanism is a combination of silicon and software, with an intellectual property (IP) licensing model. The journey of SiRF has been fast and worthwhile. Headquartered at in San Jose, California, SiRF Technology, Inc. has development facilities in Los Angeles, CA, Newport Beach, CA and Cedar Rapids, IO and India. SiRF has a unique opportunity present in its core, i.e., its management team. The core management has vast and significant experience in the personal computer IC market, which has been a catalyst for bringing GPS to the masses.
Where do you think the location and navigation based technology or industry is heading for? What is the vision of SiRF accordingly?
In a few years GPS-enabled location technologies have the potential to bring location awareness to virtually everything that moves. SiRF's vision, simply stated, is achieving that. Today, if you access Internet through your mobile phone and use a search engine to search 'burger', it will display anything and everything about burgers. But imagine a situation where the search starts giving you results that also show the burger shops around the place you are located, without you asking. That is where location awareness shall enter every possible nooks of information industry. SiRF aims to remain and be the pioneer in developing technologies and business infrastructure to support the needs of mainstream consumer and commercial platforms: wireless handheld, automobile, mobile computer, consumer electronics and enterprise.
Unlike traditional GPS businesses that were geared to vertical markets centering on military and professional applications for GPS, SiRF shall continue to develop innovative and flexible business model to address the needs of the high volume GPS markets.
The location based industry emerged with immense hype in mid to late nineties. It has been about a decade. While the technology has evolved, what about the user market and applications? Has the bubble burst?
The challenge now is to 'bring context to content'. We have to start thinking of 'Location as the Killer Enabler'. That is the crux of the future. Regarding the manner in which the industry and the technology have shaped up, I would like to portray a different picture. Every aspect of the industry has developed aggressively and adequately. The techniques, the processes, the software and the hardware have all evolved. Applications have also diversified. Revenue figures and sales have also shot up remarkably for the entire industry. If you try to understand the GPS market evolution, you will find that in the whole of eighties, it was the military and the professional surveyors who were almost the sole users of this technique. In the nineties, the consumer market started. It picked up by mid nineties when the E-911 of US embraced the technology for its system. Car navigation as well as aircraft navigation started getting experimented. By late nineties, most movement-based research had the component of GPS in them. By the turn of the century, location based services entered the PDAs, computers and finally the mobile telephone. The spurt of activities and applications exploded with this. The next level shall be to bring context to every content we see throughout the day as we live. And this contextualisation shall be made through this industry. The picture is bright and promising like never before.
From SiRFstar-I to SiRFstar-III, there had been repeated breaking of records in the GPS chip sector. What is it that gives SiRF the edge?
Since its founding, SiRF has launched breakthrough GPS architectures and semiconductor innovations directed specifically at incorporating GPS-based location awareness into mainstream consumer products. The key idea of research and development has always been to reduce size, increase battery life and cut cost. It is these three basics that help SiRF in moving ahead. The ultimate user of any GPS shall always keep on looking for affordable products, for smaller size and enough power. SiRF has focused on these for years. It works towards developing technology to improve the GPS receiver performance in low signal areas, to speed up the time and to efficiently manage power consumption. Further, quality and effectiveness of the product also matters and SiRF enjoys an edge on those. Lastly, while the semiconductor content of what we do is important and skillful, the deep system knowledge and high software content of our product offerings are other differentiators.
How do you profile the location-based market as a whole?
I believe that GPS-enabled location technologies can have the greatest impact on four mainstream consumer platforms. The four platforms are – Wireless Handheld Products, Mobile Computing Products, Automotive Products and General Consumer & Marine Products. SiRF tries to build contextual and user targeted specific products that suit each of these four platforms.
How different are each of these four segments from each other and how does the strategy for each evolve?
Each segment is important and different stages of market maturity. The needs, usage pattern and demands of each segment are varied as per the usage of the GPS. 'Wireless Handheld Products' refer to a focused group of Location aware security devices, Child and personal locators, Smart phones for location based services and Asset trackers. The second platform which is 'Mobile Computing Products' are the PDAs with GPS and mapping capabilities, Compact Flash and other GPS peripherals, Laptop PC's with GPS for GIS more for surveyors and professionals. 'Automotive Products' are a segment in them with car navigation systems, car security systems, auto emergency response systems, telematics systems and fleet tracking systems. Finally the 'General Consumer & Marine Products' refer to the handheld GPS products for outdoors, sports watches with embedded GPS, marine navigation GPS systems and location enabled digital cameras.
In brief the outreach of any service delivery should be aimed at the widest possible applications as I profiled. SiRF technology focuses on these four verticals and delivers instant location information, enabling users to find their way or find their loved ones anywhere in the world using car navigation systems, portable PCs, cellular phones, entertainment systems, hand-held devices and a wide-range of new and exciting consumer products.
How would you comment on the trends of the GPS Industry worldwide?
It is true that the major share of applications and market is existent in the West. Americas, Europe and also to a large extent Australia has amazing positioning applications coming up. The market is aware, capable of investing and convinced of the worth. Monitoring with GPS has reached out to wildlife, humans and marine. Applications have brought out newer devices and hardware and the ambit is growing. Mobile telephone applications are the biggest share of the market and shall be so for the future. Security and emergency based applications like E-911 are predominant in US and shall grow likewise over new areas and regions worldwide, and would definitely leverage the GPS industry. Europe still has a dominance of cell-ID based location services and the GPS applications are catching up. Finally, the enterprise sector, which comprises fleet management, dispatch-delivery services and business intelligence, are about to grow too.
Asia and South Americas are not far away. The huge market and fondness for information in these areas shall soon see an explosion in GPS applications. Already the mobile telephone industry is witnessing this. Korea and Japan are pretty much into GPS based information services. In fact Korea has recently come out with real life gaming applications of GPS where one has to move about a mall or a part of the city with a device to complete the location based game. The potential is immense considering the huge technical human resource also present in these regions. I believe the homeland security and common masses are the key application users for these regions. Hence, it is just a matter of time before the market trends will catch up to the same extent.
What drives the success and performance of SiRF?
SiRF has developed a business model over the years that are interestingly flexible and innovative. The key strength of SiRF is in its hand picked and excellent set of human resource. With them and a solid roadmap SiRF moves on. The process at SiRF is built around four critical success factors.
The first and most important factor is 'rapid innovation'. I believe that using new architectural concepts and leading edge semiconductor manufacturing technology and trying to innovate every day helps. Using a fabless semiconductor model, SiRF is able to focus on rapid introduction of new GPS chipset designs based on the latest semiconductor processes, design tools and geometries for both RF and digital integrated circuits. The second factor is being 'market-specific'. Software to customize GPS for specific market needs should be the focus that simply innovating for the sake of technical upheavals. SiRF bases its designs on a common architecture, which includes technology to improve the GPS receiver performance in low signal strength areas, to speed up the time to a location fix and to intelligently manage power consumption.
The third critical component of success has been 'product support' for standard and customized solutions. SiRF provides a complete set of standard toolkits that let customers take advantage of its entire features and makes it easy. Finally comes the factor of 'flexible product implementation'. Partnering with the right service providers where our products fit in and add value for manufacturers and service providers to offer customers a range of volume appropriate solutions is important. With these in mind, there cannot be a looking back.


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On Wednesday, Mayfield met with media and of course was asked about Ryan's comments.
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Ryan hasn't coached since the Buffalo Bills fired him toward the end of the 2016 season.
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When he was asked to elaborate on Mayfield's deficiencies, Ryan said the 2018 No. 1 pick is a one-read guy who improvises when his first look isn't available; is too slow to outrun defenders when he takes off; is staring down receivers; and isn't accurate down the field.
He may have been exaggerating - Ryan certainly is known to do that - but it's not debatable that Mayfield hasn't come out of the gate strong thus far this season. He's completing 56.9 percent of his passes, down from 63.8 percent in his 14 games as a rookie, and has three passing touchdowns against five interceptions. He's had at least one pick in each of the Browns' three games.
Not that we'd expect much else, but Kitchens was quick to come to Mayfield's defense.
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Positively speaking: The mystery of the missing socks
"Where's my socks?"
The universal question sounds from my closet as Arlene and I pack for our trip to see our grandsons in Sierra Madre, California.
"I did the wash this morning, so all of your socks are in your drawer," Arlene responds.
Like every other man on the planet, my socks mysteriously disappear. Well, not exactly, It seems only one sock from each pair is part of the missing in action of footwear. I purchased eight new pairs in December. As I inventory all the socks in my drawer, I have one pair and seven socks that do not match each other. I walk out of the closet with the seven unmatched socks and question Arlene about the deepening mystery.
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"What? You think I go to the grocery store wearing a matching pair and accidentally lose one in frozen foods?"
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My youngest son Travis moved home for six months while starting a new career. I realized that our laundry must be getting mixed up and he has my missing socks, but before I could ask, Travis emerges from his room and asks, "Do you have my socks?" I look up to see him holding five unmatched socks … but they are not mine.
As I total the missing, my son and I have 12 missing socks. Arlene claims no responsibility and my obsessive-compulsive propensity kicks into gear. I search under the bed and in the cushions of the furniture. I open every drawer including the kitchen. I scan the dishwasher, refrigerator and trash compactor. No socks. I look in the garage. I search through the garbage. Honestly, they are not in our home. Then where are they?
I'm suspicious that manufactures spray a chemical on one sock in each pair that causes it to dissolve in the wash. That would explain Arlene's claim that she puts them in the wash and takes them out. I realize she is now going to have to take inventory of what goes into the wash and what comes out, as the "washer and dryer" are emerging as leading suspects.
I posted this question on social media and Facebook erupted in theories. Longtime friend, Diana "Dee Dee" Szymborski believes that the key to unravelling this mystery is to find all the missing bowls that match the Tupperware lids in her cabinet. She believes the missing socks will be found within those bowls. Many other theories emerge but none seem plausible.
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The next day, I open the drawer and once again whine about my mismatched socks, mistakenly believing they are the same pair … but alas … it is the other half of the same pair and we keep revolving them in opposite wash cycles.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
I am still in California visiting family, but upon my return home, I will test my hypothesis and match up clean and dirty socks for verification.
What do you think?
If we put our heads together, I believe this problem that has plagued men since the first cave-man asked his cave-wife, "Where's my socks?" Back then, the cave-wife may have said, "I don't know, Maybe you left it out and a sabretooth tiger ate it … but if you put it in the basket, I drug it down to the river and beat them against a stone and brought them back."
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A new survival reality show premiered last night. After Shake It Up, The Next Top Bang (TNTB) 下一站传奇 is a new show that is being produced by Dragon TV. The mechanics of the two shows are different from each other so there's no overlap. This one is more along the likes of Idol Producer.
It is an all-around talent competition which includes singing and dancing. A total of 108 contestants are shortlisted and divided into 2 groups, men and women. They will be trained and coached by their respective mentors.
The women's team will have Kris Wu, Victoria Song and Bibi Zhou Bichang. The men's team will have William Chan, Hu Haiquan and G.E.M. Gloria Teng. Interestingly, Kris Wu and Victoria Song are trending the day after for sharing the stage. Victoria Song is part of f(x), a girl group managed by SM Entertainment while Kris Wu had a falling out with the same company when he left EXO in 2014.
Each week, nine contestants from the men and the women will be showcased and whoever survives, wins. It's the ultimate Battle of the Sexes.
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- AnonymousOctober 22, 2018 at 6:36 AM
Wait..thought it's the other way around, the men's team is with WC, GEM & HH while the women's team is with KW, VS & ZB. I watched the 1st epi. and I thought the judging was a bit confusing, all 3 judges have to come to an agreement, 2 out of 3 same colour lights sometimes count or not, if that is the case, might as well eliminate the 'light' system IMO.ReplyDelete
The only thing I've heard about this show is that there was a contestant who sang a remix of exo's overdose. She was very brave to do that with Kris as a judge. But overall I don't know if I'm gonna watch this show or not. To be honest the only reason why I might watch this is cuz of the judges.ReplyDelete


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the cast of the revival of THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON
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from NEW YORK TIMES:
February 3, 2011
Just the Guys, Candid and Rugged
By PATRICK HEALY
DONE for the day, the five actors in the new Broadway revival of That Championship Season kicked back in a Chelsea rehearsal room recently and shared wine and beer as they talked about their all-male ensemble, career choices, and the legacy of The Lost Boys and 24.
The winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for drama and the Tony Award for best play, That Championship Season follows a reunion of four high school basketball players whose lives soured after winning a state title and whose fears are expressed through racism and anti-Semitism. Kiefer Sutherland, Jack Bauer on 24, is making his Broadway debut as a bitter junior high school principal; Jason Patric, his co-star in the vampire movie The Lost Boys, plays his alcoholic brother; Chris Noth (The Good Wife, Sex and the City), is a sleazy businessman; and Jim Gaffigan, the stand-up comedian, is the feckless mayor of their town. The host of the reunion is their coach, played by Brian Cox, who last starred on Broadway in Tom Stoppards Rock n Roll.
The playwright is Mr. Patrics father, Jason Miller, who played Father Damien Karras in The Exorcist. He died in 2001. The revival is scheduled to begin performances on Wednesday at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater. Patrick Healy, theater reporter for The New York Times, moderated the discussion. Here are excerpts.
Q. How much of this ensembles chemistry has to do with testosterone?
JASON PATRIC Thats part of it. Weve bonded like a sports team. Parts of us have bled into our characters. Our repartee has become similar to the plays.
JIM GAFFIGAN For instance the honesty of Jason Patric and the honesty of his character, Tom, are equally frightening to my character, George, and to Jim Gaffigan.
CHRIS NOTH [snidely] Honesty? You sound like the [expletive deleted] mayor.
KIEFER SUTHERLAND I feel very uncomfortable if too much time goes by away from these guys. Discovering your character is a really fragile process. I dont want it to float away.
BRIAN COX This is a big step for these four guys because they dont usually do plays. My life is based on doing plays, that was the culture I inherited. I never liked the theater. I always wanted to do movies.
Q. The five of you are busy in television, movies, comedy. What led each of you to Broadway Kiefer and Jim, for the first time to do That Championship Season?
COX I read the play, and it caught me. I was very vulnerable at the time.
PATRIC Jim had just broken up with him. [laughter]
COX Ive been a little disillusioned of late. I have of late
NOTH [paraphrasing Hamlet] I have of late lost all my mirth.
COX Id been thinking I dont know why Im living in New York. I mean, Im here for my children, who get a great education here. But Ive got to find some reason for being in the city. L.A. was fine. Sun. London, Id lived there all my life. But living here was such a strain. Then [the director] Gregory [Mosher] sent me this play. I read it, and thought, wow, maybe I should go back to the theater. The play is about purity of purpose, and the one thing that my own life lacks, that my life used to have, was purity of purpose. It became compromised by everything else.
GAFFIGAN Youre really bumming me out.
COX For all the plays xenophobic racism and what have you, its about loving one another. The coach has this total trust in these four guys, that at the end of the day things will be sorted out. And it does. Sort of.
NOTH I think it captures America so well.
COX The great thing about you Americans is you tried to get away from it all. The colonists came here to be free, to achieve something. And youve tried to do it for 200 years. Youve screwed it up good and proper now, but youve had good moments. Your cinema is second to none, at least up until 1976.
NOTH Not The Lost Boys? [laughter] When was that?
Q. Kiefer, how did you come to the play?
SUTHERLAND Well, 24 was ending. I had moved to New York because my daughter was going to university here. I fell in love with the Village. But outside of that I had no purpose here. So I called up Jason. I had a lot of respect for a lot of Jasons choices work-wise. And I didnt know anyone here. Literally, I know more New Yorkers now as a result of this rehearsal process than Id known in five years. I said, Look, for the first time in nine years Im going to have a chance to do whatever I want. What do you think I should do? And he didnt say, That Championship Season. He said: What kind of films do you want to make? Another television show? And I said yes to everything. But I hadnt done a play since 1997, and that was ridiculous. So Jason sent me three plays. I read this play for the first time since drama school, and I knew Brian was involved. Jason was. I think Chris was involved
NOTH Not yet. Jason saw me in a play in California, came back and asked for my autograph. I said, Who are you, kid?
PATRIC I didnt ask for your autograph. I said, Can you get me Sarah Jessicas autograph? [laughter]
SUTHERLAND So I had no idea what to do. I started sleeping really late. I thought, well Ill get to the gym by 4. No, Ill get there by 6. You know what, I like working out at 9 at night. Without any kind of structure, my life just started to
PATRIC Become Jason Patrics!
SUTHERLAND For me this play was too complicated, too challenging not to have a run at it. Look, I might run straight into a brick wall.
COX You will.
SUTHERLAND It would have been awful not to have tried.
NOTH [pointing to Mr. Sutherland] Thats America!
SUTHERLAND Theres nothing like being in New York with a sense of purpose. And theres nothing more dangerous and destructive than being in New York without a sense of purpose.
Q. Jason, were you hoping to play brothers with Kiefer?
NOTH The other guys were too tall.
PATRIC You know, we worked together 25 years ago. I hadnt seen Kiefer in 20 years. But I just thought hed be perfect as James. I thought there was an element in Kiefer to be mined that was so much different from an iconic persona that hed created on 24. Some people play a wholly different character intentionally to demolish or diminish typecasting. Thats not the case. This character has a lot of Kiefer, and a lot of Kiefers strengths will illuminate this mans weaknesses.
SUTHERLAND Theres great weakness in James, a desperation. To find the truth and the beats and the moments and the connection to the four other guys, Ive had to really touch a fear of weakness, of panic.
COX Fear is common in men. Its what leads men to bond. Were a dying species. I had my DNA done recently, and the doctor said, eventually, women will self-ovulate. They wont need us.
PATRIC But not in the next 50 years, right?
SUTHERLAND I want the name of this doctor.
COX This is what Jason Miller was writing about, men as a dying species. But I just want to reassure Jason of something: You and your like will be kept on as playthings, because women will still want to be pleasured. [laughter]
PATRIC I come in here to talk, and I become the vibrator.
Q. The play closed on Broadway in 1974, and this is the first revival there. Do the themes have resonance? Are they relevant?
NOTH Im befuddled why this play hasnt made a bigger mark.
PATRIC In the early 70s what carried your play past Broadway was the touring productions that brought it to other towns, then into universities, where it was taught, and it was also very lucrative. But this play: the language, the sexuality, the uncomfortable male intimacy. There were a lot of towns that didnt want the play.
COX Especially the towns with Jews in them. [laughter]
GAFFIGAN Heres how I view it: Its obviously going to be good. But I think everyone sitting around here wants it to be absolutely brilliant. I had this naïve belief of, O.K., here we go. And then, O.K., four more things to figure out. And then you discover there are eight more layers to this character. [whispers] I thought it would be a little bit easier.
NOTH I also wonder if drama critics today want a Tom Stoppard play
COX Spare me!
NOTH That this play would be seen as simplistic, which is wrong.
COX Stoppard is devoted to ideas, like rock n roll changing Communism in Czechoslovakia, and you think, thats fine, thats a big notion. Jason Miller is devoted to humanity. This play is tackling something as simple as a reunion of guys who won a trophy. Thats the tradition of great American drama. It doesnt get full of itself.
PATRIC You know, my Dad wrote this play to get us out of poverty. What it became, in his own words, was beyond his wildest dreams. But he was never able to escape the glory, not unlike these five characters. Their struggle became his own. Now our own.
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