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Hi my friends! We're busy nesting and being cozy for the holidays but I wanted to pop in with a fun giveaway to celebrate the season! St. Frank, a store I love for their epic collection of home goods, is offering up one of these amazing Juju hats to a lucky reader! As you may remember from this post, I have a small collection of them in our living room. Nearly every person who visits comments on them and I love sharing the background on their origin (*see below for a blurb about them from the St. Frank website)! I also adore that St. Frank is supporting low and middle income communities and their artisans while simultaneously helping preserve their crafts. I have an obsession with textiles from other lands, so this makes me extremely happy!
*"The Juju hat is a symbol of prosperity and divinity in Bamileke culture. The Bamileke is an ethnic group from Cameroon's west and northeast provinces. Birds, whose feathers are used to create this elaborate headdress, are sacred to the Bamileke because their power of flight allows them to soar to the heavens. Traditionally, the Juju hat was worn by members of the high Kuosi class during Bamileke rituals and festivities. The Kuosi consisted of prominent tribal leaders, affluent landowners, and celebrated warriors. The Juju hat was worn to perform an annual dance celebrating the kingdom's prosperity." HOW INCREDIBLE IS THAT?!
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Transit police chase suspect accused of leud behavior on MBTA commuter rail
A 24-year-old Boston man was charged with open and gross conduct on a commuter rail train, after witnesses said he was masturbating on the train.
The incident happened Monday night on a train headed toward North Station from Lowell.
Transit police at North Station were alerted to the situation by crew aboard the train. As the Lowell train came to a stop and passengers were getting off, the officers noticed the suspect, later identified as Mehmet Beyaztas, running down the platform and away from the train.The officers were immediately notified by train personnel Beyaztas was the man who was involved in the incident on board the train.
The witness, a female on the train sitting across from Beyaztas, said the suspect made no attempt to conceal and/or be covert with his actions and his genitals were fully exposed.
Beyaztas was expected to be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court Tuesday.

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Herald Tribune: Lyons: Police raid felt like home invasion (July 18 2013)
He was claiming to be a police officer, but the man [Louise Goldberry] had seen looked to her more like an armed thug. Her boyfriend, [Craig] Dorris, was calmer, and yelled back that he wanted to see some ID.
But the man just demanded they open the door. The actual words, the couple say, were, "We're the f—— police; open the f—— door."
Dorris said he moved away from the door, afraid bullets were about to rip through.
Goldsberry was terrified but thinking it just might really be the police. Except, she says she wondered, would police talk that way? She had never been arrested or even come close. She couldn't imagine why police would be there or want to come in. But even if they did, why would they act like that at her apartment? It didn't seem right.
Then, to the couple's horror — and as Goldsberry huddled in the hallway with gun in hand — the front door they had thought was locked pushed open. A man edged around the corner and pointed a gun and a fiercely bright light at them, and yelled even more.
"Drop the f—— gun or I'll f—— shoot you," he shouted, then said it again and again, Goldsberry and Dorris say.
Half an hour of terror, no warrants:
They remained cuffed for close to half an hour as the apartment was searched for a wanted man who wasn't there, never had been, and who was totally unknown to them. They were shown his picture. Then they were released, the police left, and that was that.
Meet the pig, Matt Wiggins:
Matt Wiggins was the man at the door. He's with the U.S. Marshal's fugitive division.
I asked him what happened. He said they had a tip that a child-rape suspect was at the complex.
Not only did these pigs have no warrant to search Louise Goldsberry's aparment, they did not even have any specific information that their suspect had any connection to her apartment:
That suspect, Kyle Riley, was arrested several hours later in another part of Sarasota.
The tip was never about Goldsberry's apartment, specifically, Wiggins acknowledged. It was about the complex.
But when the people in Goldsberry's apartment didn't open up, that told Wiggins he had probably found the right door. No one at other units had reacted that way, he said.
Maybe none of them had a gun pointed at them through the kitchen window, I suggested. But Wiggins didn't think that was much excuse for the woman's behavior. He said he acted with restraint and didn't like having that gun aimed at him.
You poor, poor, pig, Matt Wiggins. You dress up in ninja suits and point guns at innocent citizens through their windows and then get all bent out shape when they defend their homes?
You're a fucking pig, Matt Wiggin, a worthless fucking government terrorist pig.


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My research interests span areas such as distributed real-time systems, resource
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I direct the Mobile Computing Lab (M-Lab), where we focus on projects such as mobile applications and services, wireless networks (primarily MANETs, VANETs, mesh networks, etc.), wireless sensor networks, QoS and real-time requirements, energy efficiency, and pervasive/mobile healthcare solutions.
Our group's research is funded through grants by NSF (including a 2006 CAREER
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Between 2010 and 2012, I also served as executive board member for Notre Dame's Wireless Institute, which focuses on everything wireless, from radio technologies and protocols to wireless and mobile applications to "other" aspects of wireless communications such as social, legal, and business matters. I am also member of the Notre Dame Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics (AD&T) initiative at Notre Dame, the Center for Civic Innovation, and the Pulte Institute for Global Development. More information about the M-Lab, AD&T, the Center for Civic Innovation, and the Pulte Institute can be found on the links below.
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Two Years After Tsunami, Still Waiting to Rebuild
Teiichi Sato is in limbo. After his shop in Rikuzentakata, Japan was destroyed two years ago by a tsunami, he opened a temporary one. But red tape has kept him from permanently rebuilding. WSJ's Daisuke Wakabayashi reports.
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text: It's easy to cherry-pick quick hits off iTunes, but what moved us most this year were the musical releases that were more than just the sum of their parts -- the albums that demanded to be heard in full, like Frank Ocean's genre-defying masterpiece channel Orange, the cool sizzle of The xx returning to form on Coexist, or the lyrical thrill of Kendrick Lamar living up to his hype in good kid, m.A.A.d city. Check out the ten musical releases we wanted to hear top to bottom this year and drop your full-album favorites in the comments. Above: Frank Ocean's channel ORANGE Nearly every single track on Frank Ocean's channel ORANGE is fantastic, but the album would've made this list based on the track "Pyramids" alone. Nearly 10 minutes long, the pop opera starts in Cleopatra's Egypt and ends in a seedy motel but somehow manages to make turn an otherwise creepy love song into a profound statement about the treatment of women. Once queens, now sex workers, the females in Ocean's song hold incredible power – strength that makes the male voices narrating the track want to control them, even when they know they can't. Ocean, a unique voice in both his vocal style and musical complexity, made waves this summer when he revealed his previous love for a man on Tumblr, but 2012 is almost over and while that bold move is still being discussed, the praise for channel ORANGE is much louder. – Angela WatercutterCat Power's Sun It's probably cliché to say that Cat Power's Sun is a ray of light, but that's simply the best way to describe it. Six years after her last album of original tracks The Greatest, the artist otherwise known as Chan Marshall came back strong. Melding dark concepts – "What are we doing? We're sitting on a ruin," she sings on "Ruin" – with surprisingly upbeat rhythms and jangly guitars and her own weathered voice has proven to be a magic mixture on the album's 11 tracks. Cat Power's music has always been about finding beauty in the darkest of places, but with Sun Marshall brought just a little more glimmer with the grime. – Angela WatercutterAesop Rock's Skelethon Aesop Rock's storytelling skills have been evident since 2001's Labor Days, his classic album about why having a job sucks. His latest release, Skelethon, earns a best-of spot by merit of his lyrics alone, even if you commit the catastrophic error of setting aside his beat selection and flow. Just listen to "Ruby '81," his 2 minute 33 second slip of a song that deftly traces the path of a two-year-old girl across the lawn and into a pool at her family's 4th of July gathering: "Past the pyrotechnics undetected and invisible/ Woke the sleeping beagle skipping toward the kidney swimming pool/ Off into the yawning blue." By the end of the song, the tableau feels as real as any home video. Each new record seems better than the last, and Skelethon is yet another high point. -David BrothersRegina Spektor's What We Saw From The Cheap Seats Never underestimate the power of a catchy song. Spektor's latest album sounds like a feel-good album but reads like something stranger and more sinister, ready to lodge itself in your brain before you realize it. You can tell whether What We Saw From The Cheap Seats is going to be for you or not by how you react to the second track, "Oh Marcello." Does a sublime mixture of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" with poppy-but-creepy lyrics like "She's been saying I'll have a baby/ When he grow up he'll become a killer and kill everybody" sound appealing to you? If it doesn't, trust me: it should. Spektor knows her way around a pop song, and listening to her bend her lyrics into a catchy shape is time well spent. Play it with your windows down and your system up, and have some fun. Some weird, unnerving fun. -David BrothersHow to Dress Well's Total Loss Tom Krell makes some of the most unlikely music on the planet: Heartbreaking songs about being lost in depression and without love set against Janet Jackson-inspired rhythms (who knew she'd be so influential in a year when she didn't put out an album?) and infused with ambient electronic melodies. This special sauce makes How to Dress Well's Total Loss totally mesmerizing. Aside from stand-outs like "& It Was U" and "Cold Nites" most of the album melts together, but that's the point. You don't listen to it, you get lost in it. In her opus to heartbreak Written on the Body Jeanette Winterson asked, "Why is the measure of love loss?" I think of that line every time I play this record, because it's so obvious in his falsetto voice that the losses that inspired Krell's album are total and immeasurable. – Angela WatercutterKendrick Lamar's good kid, m.A.A.d city There's a lot of hype around Kendrick Lamar, even claims that the young rapper might be the "savior" of the west coast hip-hop. Savior or not, good kid, m.A.A.d city, proves that Lamar can live up to the big expectations. good kid, m.A.A.d city identifies itself as a "short film," combining music, complex narratives and skits in an autobiographical tale about a day in the life of Kendrick Lamar as a young man in Compton. On their own, the individual songs are all strong, with a fistful of tracks -- "Swimming Pools (Drank)," "Backseat Freestyle," and "Poetic Justice" featuring Drake -- worthy of a place in your shuffle rotation. But if you want the full effect, you need to listen to good kid, m.A.A.d city from front to back, and hear the tracks build into a must-listen experience that is something much more than the some of its parts. -David BrothersYeasayer's Fragrant World Brooklyn's Yeasayer manage to make pop music out of some of the most un-poppy equipment out there (Omnisphere? OK, sure.). But at least they know what they're doing. On their follow-up to 2010's Odd Blood, Yeasayer got even funkier and fresher with their otherworldly sounds, and ended up with an album as far out as it is accessible to pop ears. – Angela WatercutterThe xx's Coexist Haunting bass lines, sparse vocals, melodies that sound vaguely sexual, yet warm: You pretty much know what you're getting when you get a record from The xx, but they never disappoint. With Coexist the British art-rockers pretty much build on the self-titled debut, just adding a little extra sizzle. But it worked. Coexist is the best chill-out records of the year. – Angela WatercutterKiller Mike's RAP Music Every once and a while, when when an emcee and a producer love each other very much, they manage to produce something magical. The musical duo of Atlanta rapper Killer Mike and Brooklyn rapper El-P might sound like a strange combination on paper -- El-P tends to lean New York City cynical, while Killer Mike embodies the spirit of an Ice Cube you love to hate -- but after you hear RAP Music? You'll be a believer. El's production runs the gamut from hardcore Bomb Squad boom bap to airy and funereal-sounding. Mike blacks out over all of it, from the opening bars of "Big Beast" to the last two lines of the third verse of "RAP Music." Mike says that he's "gonna spit that real on each and every song and each and every poem until the good Lord call me home." It's a bold promise, but and one that he more than lives up to on album highlights "Jojo's Chillin'" and "Anywhere But Here," he delivers. -David BrothersNorah Jones's Little Broken Hearts Forget what you think you know about Norah Jones. In Little Broken Hearts, Jones and album producer Danger Mouse have delivered just under forty-five minutes of stellar break-up songs that crawl deep inside you until you find yourself unintentionally singing them in the shower or humming while you walk to work. "Miriam," a sweet-sounding revenge ballad to the other woman, creeps up behind Jones's dulcet tones with lyrics like knives: "Miriam, that's such a pretty name/ I'm gonna say it when I make you cry." Jones has a voice that's built for singing songs about heartbreak, and she has a way of turning a simple break-up song into a powerful dirge full of raw emotion that'll stick with you for ages. -David Brothers


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Inmates at a "crisis" prison caused a serious disturbance lasting more than eight hours.
The Prison Officers' Association (POA) said a fire was started during the incident at HMP Ranby in Nottinghamshire yesterday.
A spokesman for the Prison Service said minor damage was sustained and there were no injuries to staff or prisoners.
Chief Inspector of Prisons Nick Hardwick said HMP Ranby was ''in crisis'' after the publication of a report on Thursday which described the prison as unsafe with high levels of violence.
Glyn Travis, assistant secretary of the POA, described the disturbance as a "serious incident".
He said: "One hundred and twenty prisoners refused to return to their cells. They have taken control of a unit."
Mr Travis added that the inmates started a fire which was quickly put under control.
A Prison Service spokesman said: " A disturbance on one wing at HMP Ranby has ended. No staff or prisoners were injured and minimal damage was sustained.
"Prison staff were deployed to deal with the incident, which involved between 30 and 60 prisoners.
"The prison will now return to normal operation and visits will take place as usual today."
The disturbance began at around midday on Saturday and was not resolved until 8.10pm.
Prison staff are working with Nottinghamshire Police to identify the ringleaders.
Police, ambulance and fire crews attended the prison, which is on a country road a few miles outside Retford.
Officers carrying shields and other equipment were seen going inside, later joined by around 15 firefighters in their full kit.
Several p risoner-carrying vehicles went into the prison to collect a number of inmates, who could be heard shouting and banging as they were driven away.
A critical report on HMP Ranby was released following an 11-day inspection by HM Inspectorate of Prisons.
It found that two prisoners died through ''self-inflicted deaths'' last year, and a further two have died in a similar way since the unannounced inspection in March.
Conditions in part of the prison, which holds more than 1,000 men, were dirty, prisoners were found to have climbed netting in a bid to force a transfer to another facility and nearly half the population said they had felt unsafe having been victimised or intimidated, findings showed.
Evidence was found of an increasing number of incidences of self-harm at the category C training prison, and the availability of legal highs was also found to have increased.
Labour MP John Mann, whose Bassetlaw constituency includes the prison, said his repeated warnings that "dysfunctional" management and serious staff shortages would lead to disaster had been ignored by ministers and prison officials.
He said there were 80 fewer prison officers than previously - a 20% reduction - with many experienced individuals having been "forced out" over the past two years.
"It is a prison where, for quite a time, it's been clear prisoners have been running the prison," he said.
"There are not the numbers or the expertise among the staff to deal with it.
"The governors were warned, the Government was warned, by me and by many others, that this would lead to disaster.
"I have raised this directly with the prisons minister more than once."
He welcomed the appointment of a new governor but said he had "lost track" of how many changes there had been at the top and insisted the only solution was to recruit more staff.
Mr Travis said the disturbance was "no surprise" to the POA.
"It's all down to chronic staff shortfalls and a management that are hell-bent on delivering things they can't deliver safely," he said.
"Prisoners are saying 'We're not dealing with this'.
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The Myth Is The Message
Yet another discovery of the lost continent of Atlantis shows why science and myth make uneasy bedfellows
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
Consider the so-called Lost Continent of Atlantis, a mythic place that has been "found" in so many places around the planet that one wouldn't think there was anywhere left to look. Think again. On June 6 the BBC released a story about satellite images locating Atlantis in, of all places, the south of Spain. The story quoted Rainer Kuhne of the University of Dortmund in Germany as saying, "Plato wrote of an island of five stades (925 m) diameter that was surrounded by several circular structures — concentric rings — some consisting of Earth and the others of water. We have in the photos concentric rings just as Plato described." (continue reading…)


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In a match delayed by weather three times – on June 4, on July 22, and in the 54th minute – the Dynamo finally emerged with a 2-0 win behind a left-footed blast from Brian Mullan and a Brian Ching header.
Houston Dynamo (5-4-8) vs. D.C. United (7-8-1)
July 23, 2008 -- RFK Stadium, Washington DC
Scoring Summary:
HOU -- Brian Mullan 1 (Geoff Cameron 2) 20
HOU -- Brian Ching 7 (Brad Davis 2) 79
Houston Dynamo -- Pat Onstad, Craig Waibel, Bobby Boswell, Eddie Robinson (Patrick Ianni 41), Wade Barrett, Brian Mullan, Geoff Cameron, Stuart Holden, Brad Davis (Corey Ashe 88), Dwayne De Rosario, Brian Ching (Nate Jaqua 89).
Substitutes Not Used: Tony Caig, Kyle Brown, Mike Chabala, Chris Wondolowski.
D.C. United -- Zach Wells, Pat Carroll (Rod Dyachenko 25), Gonzalo Martinez, Bryan Namoff, Marc Burch, Craig Thompson (Francis Doe 26), Clyde Simms, Fred (Quavas Kirk 86), Devon Mctavish, Luciano Emilio, Jaime Moreno.
Substitutes Not Used: James Thorpe, Ryan Cordeiro, Joe Vide, Mike Zaher.
Misconduct Summary:
HOU -- Eddie Robinson (caution; Pushing) 16
DC -- Rod Dyachenko (caution; Pushing) 46+
DC -- Gonzalo Martinez (caution; Dissent) 54
DC -- Luciano Emilio (caution; Reckless Foul) 57
HOU -- Dwayne De Rosario (caution; Reckless Foul) 63
HOU -- Pat Onstad (caution; Delay of Game) 77
DC -- Gonzalo Martinez (ejection; Second Caution) 83
Referee: Ricardo Salazar
Referee's Assistants: Jason Cullum; James Conlee
4th official: Jeff Gontarek
Attendance: 14,660
Time of Game: 4:44
Weather: Partly Cloudy-and-83-degrees
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MS Deploy - New IIS Web Deployment Tool
Months ago, even before I started at Microsoft, I got to talk to some very nice people about a project they were calling AdminX. After I told them that that was very possibly the worst name they could possibly give it (and they took part that very well) we got to dig into what the tool was going to do. As with all great tools it did stuff that we had already written at my last company. It's always nice to throw home-grown tools away if found tools will do the job better.
Anyway, there's a Tech Preview of MS Deploy out for both x86 and x64. It installs a Windows Service, but it doesn't need to be running except when it's doing work so don't panic.
It's got a metric ton (a good thing) of options. For example, if I want to archive/backup a Site, I go:
msdeploy.exe" -verb:sync -source:appHostConfig="Default Web Site" -dest:archivedir=c:\mybackup
You can restore just by reversing source and dest. All the settings are maintained and stored in XML.
There's other "verbs" to use. For example, you can getDependencies (currently only on IIS6, IIS7 to come) and get details on exactly what your app needs in terms of authentication, filters, modules, etc.
You can transfer or 'sync' websites or web servers between each other like this:
msdeploy -verb:sync -source:webserver,targetName=http://computername/MSDEPLOY/ -dest:webserver > msdeploysync.log
Also, because there's a Windows Service involved, you can do remote deploys - that's the part we've all been waiting for. MS Deploy also supports the -whatif flag, showing you what will happen without doing anything.
There is also a plan to have a PowerShell cmdlet interface for MS Deploy when it releases, so things are looking up in the IIS space.
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Tony Evans
Tony Evans, Th.D, is a Christian pastor, speaker, author, and a widely syndicated radio and television
broadcaster. He was the first African American to earn a doctorate in Theology from Dallas Theological
Seminary. Dr. Evans serves as Senior Pastor to the over 9,500 member Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in
Dallas, Texas. He is also founder and president of The Urban Alternative, a national organization
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We may think of ants as industrious little creatures constantly toiling for the sake of the hive. But Andrey Pavlov's photographs imagine how ants might spend their free time, in lightly fantastical scenes.
Although his photos are obviously staged, he uses real ants. I'm not sure if the ants in question are dead or manipulated in post-production, but he manages to create magical, and strangely adorable, scenes.
Ant Stories [via Neatorama]
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Welcome back to Midweek Madness. It's spring, and the weekly mags are all abuzz with a new relationship. In fact, according to In Touch and Us, Jen Aniston and John Mayer spent one weekend together in Miami and now it's LOVE. The other covers deal with Katie Holmes as a
Stepford Scientology wife; the mental health of Britney's kids; and Angelina and Brad's "wedding of the year," which has supposedly happened or been going to happen for what feels like decades now. As always, Intern Sharon helps us do the dirty work as we try and wipe clean the pages of OK!, Us, In Touch, Life & Style and Star, after the jump.
"Wedding Of The Year." The mag claims that Angelina and Brad will get hitched in a small civil ceremony in New Orleans, then maybe honeymoon in the South of France. But guess what? They've already relocated to the South of France as of today. So. Moving on: A "50 Ways To Fake Your Weight" story has tips like "wear black, wear Spanx and "wear heels." Groundbreaking! Also inside: Jennifer Aniston went on a date with John Mayer — will he "eventually break her heart?"
Grade: F (scrubbing the toilet)
"Jen & John: Suddenly In Love." Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer have been "cyberflirting" by sending emails for like six months. The six-page story basically says they spent a weekend together in Miami. They ate out a lot. Also inside: Liv Tyler phoned a lawyer and complained that her husband was a leech on her assets and that she got married too young. Uh-oh. Jessica Simpson calls Tony Romo "my future husband." Romo visited The Diamond Doctor in Dallas. Are they getting engaged? Do you care?
Grade: D- (scouring soap scum in tub/shower)
Life & Style
"Reuniting For The Kids." The story doesn't actually say that Britney and Kevin are reuniting for the kids, it says that the two boys have erratic behavior, especially around Kevin's other kids. So Britney wants them back, for stability. Hmm. Meanwhile, Jamie Lynn's unborn baby: It's a girl! And JLS plans to have "Lynn" as part of the baby's name, duh. Plus, she's taking a breastfeeding class. A source says: "She's determined to do it!" Jennifer Aniston set up the date weekend with John Mayer: Is she moving to fast? They make it seem like she is desperate. Because, you know, when a woman makes the first move, she must be desperate. As for Lindsay and Sam, an insider says: "Sam knows in her heart that Lindsay isn't gay, so she basically lives in fear of every new cute guy that comes along and hits on Lindsay." Awww. Oh, and since Sam comes from money (her family is worth $300 million) LL is kind of a "kept woman." Tom Brady told Bridget Moynahan that he wants his girlfriend Gisele to develop a relationship with baby John because he plans on popping the question to Gisele.
Grade: D- (cleaning out the fridge)
In Touch
"Jen's Hot New Love." John Mayer booked room at the Four Season in Miami, but spent all his time at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, where Jen Aniston had a $3,000 a night suite. The couple hung out in the sun and had a three-hour dinner, after which he went up in the elevator with her. Did he spend the night??? Moving on: There are two pages devoted to the fact that Nicole Kidman's "bump" is showing. Lindsay Lohan has moved in with her girlfriend Sam Ronson. A source says: "It may not be a sexual relationship, but Lindsay and Samantha are a couple. They even sleep in the same bed." But Linsday's pal designer Wayne Joffe says: "Lindsay is not gay. They're just being girls and are best friends." Britney's "crazy behavior" has cost her tons of cash! From the head-shaving on, since she hasn't been touring and has had to pay for security, legal fees and medical care, she's out $61 million. Star Jones and Al Reynolds are getting divorced! And gay rumors abound! Al's own mother says: "I truly believed that he would never get married. He never seemed interested." Meanwhile: Is Mariah Carey engaged to Nick Cannon??? OMG Heidi Klum sent Victoria Beckham food for her birthday. Heidi is having a dozen cupcakes from Sprinkles in L.A. delivered to Posh every week for a year! The mag reminds you that Posh was asked by Barbara Walters if she would ever eat a cookie, and Posh said, "No." Meh, the best thing in this mag was a picture of puppies (Fig. 1).
Grade: D (cleaning out the closets)
"Scientology Boot Camp For Katie!" Katie Holmes has been doing Scientology stuff including various testing, confession sessions, tons of reading and physically challenging purification processes. Katie does intense auditing sessions that last for 36 hours straight with no sleep or food. She took a course called "The Potential Trouble Source/Suppressive Person Course" that teaches if someone doesn't like Scientology, you must ignore or disconnect from them. Fun! Also inside: Matthew McConaughey has given up beer because pregnant girlfriend Camilla was frustrated that she had to go on the wagon while he continued to party. Blind item! "Which new heartthrob could soon disappoint teen girls across the universe? At a premiere party for his new flick, he was spotted making out and leaving with a guy." Are Jessica and Ashlee in a "race to the altar"? A source says Jess is jealous of all the attention Ash gets and would love to get married first. Britney's boys are back in her life and "not afraid of her anymore" because she doesn't take them out into crowds where they have "had bad experiences." Nicole Richie is torn between being a mommy and being a party girl. She goes from the nursery to the nightclub. Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are thought to be the couple in a blind item from the New York Daily News: "Which weekly glossy just signed a megamillion dollar contract with a certain annoying celebrity couple? The deal is, the magazine will get exclusive interviews with the couple, but in turn, they need to break up (again), get back together (again) and actually get married." Hmm, is the glossy in question Us? Lastly: "Roly-Poly Romeos" that have gone from hunk to chunk include Jake Gyllenhaal, Nick Lachey and Dane Cook.
Grade: D (clearing/organizing drawers)
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Having sufficiently mourned the passing of that pinball machine you've nurtured over the years, until it finally, irrevocably gave up its blinking ghosts, it's now time to move on and celebrate the good times.
And how better to celebrate the life of such a wondrous off-spring of clock works and diodes then by ripping out its guts and putting the façade up for daily display. Let's hope Kotaku Tower never has an adopted waif whose life we want to celebrate…
Zieak over at Instructables walks us through how to turn the playfield of an old, hopefully no longer living, pinball machine into a fairly kick-ass coffee table.
It involves quite a lot of work, and owning a pinball table you're willing to gut, but the end result is pretty spectacular… or at least it would be if he stained that wood. Stain it man!
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CFTC Proposal Would Subject Funds to Duplicative, Conflicting Regulatory Requirements
By Sarah Bessin and Rachel Graham
April 15, 2011
Funds use swaps and other derivatives in a variety of ways to manage their investment portfolios, and many of these uses are unrelated to speculation. This is why we have been particularly concerned by a proposal from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to revise Rule 4.5, which provides an exclusion for funds and certain "otherwise regulated" entities from regulation as commodity pool operators (CPOs).
This proposal, as we made clear in a recent comment letter and in testimony before Congress, would significantly narrow the Rule 4.5 exclusion as applied only to funds. If adopted in its current form, the proposal would subject many funds—which are already subject to comprehensive regulation under all four of the major federal securities laws—to duplicative and fundamentally inconsistent regulatory requirements.
The CFTC maintains that it needs to "stop the practice of registered investment companies offering futures-only investment products" without CFTC oversight. Under its proposal, a fund would only be exempt from CFTC regulation if it satisfies certain trading and marketing restrictions with respect to its positions in commodity futures, commodity options, and swaps. But the sweeping language of the proposal would reach far beyond the handful of funds that could reasonably be described as "futures-only" products. Instead, the proposed restrictions could affect hundreds, if not thousands, of funds.
Which funds could be affected? Based on our reading of the proposal and discussions with our members, the restrictions could implicate even basic S&P 500 stock funds and tax-exempt bond funds. These are investment products for buy-and-hold investors and retirement savers, not for speculators in the futures and options markets.
Here are just a few of the key concerns raised in our letter and testimony:
- The proposed amendments to Rule 4.5 are premature and insufficiently developed. For example, the CFTC proposes a key trading restriction that would relate to margin levels on derivatives positions. ICI and its members cannot even assess the full impact of this proposed restriction because regulators have not yet determined which swaps will be subject to central clearing, what the margin requirements will be for cleared and uncleared swaps, and whether foreign exchange forwards and foreign exchange swaps will be exempted from the definition of "swap."
- The CFTC has failed to demonstrate the need for imposing a second layer of regulation on funds. Moreover, its cursory cost-benefit analysis is wholly inadequate to justify the costly and burdensome regulation contemplated by the proposed amendments.
- Some funds would become subject to duplicative and conflicting regulation. Even if the proposed amendments to Rule 4.5 are appropriately scaled back, there are likely to be some funds (and their investment advisers) that would become subject to CFTC regulation. It is essential that the CFTC work closely with the SEC to reconcile the duplicative and conflicting regulatory requirements to which these funds would become subject. For example, the SEC significantly limits the ability of a fund to include in its prospectus performance information about other funds or accounts managed by the fund's adviser. The CFTC rules, by contrast, in some cases require disclosure of such information. Funds simply cannot comply with both sets of rules in such instances.
The CFTC should carefully consider all concerns raised by ICI and other commenters. If it continues to believe that amendments to Rule 4.5 are necessary, it should re-propose those amendments for public comment.
Sarah Bessin and Rachel Graham are securities attorneys with the Investment Company Institute
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Auke Akkerman - Federica Bardelli - Hilje de Boer - Thom Bovelander - Stef van den Broek - Daniela Diewock - Anne van Egmond - Rik van Eijk - Rosemary Hill - Arla Krikke - Andreea Mironiuc - Michael ten Pas - Daniël van der Poel - Marissa Sieuwerts - Alexandros Valarakis - Giel Veenstra - Kyrsha Verweij
The connotation with the word dashboard is that of a car (or perhaps other vehicles). Nevertheless, the word comes from a dashboard on horse carriages, which prevented the passengers of getting dirty due to the horses trot on the ground (hence dash): an upturned screen of wood or leather placed on the front of a horse-drawn carriage, sleigh or other vehicle that protected the driver from mud, debris, water and snow thrown up by the horse's hooves (Oxford Dictionary). Nevertheless, it is nowadays closely tied to phenomenon of control panels that allow for information retrieval and action. Examples of these dashboards are a car dashboard which provides information relating the car (speed, amount of fuel), or Google Analytics, which let the admins or moderators of a website see into the statistics of a website. Based on this information, dashboards provide a function (both directly and indirectly) to enhance or tweak performance, constructing a power relation between the ones that have direct access to the dashboard, and those that are subject of it.
This research report will approach a "dashboard of dashboards", using methods designed by the Digital Methods Initiative. Approaching dashboard images over a period of time, a lineage is created wherein one can analyze change over time and medium specific changes in Google Images' perception of dashboards. The result will be a cohesive paper contributing in the ongoing debate of dashboard (interfaces); methods and findings relating to the DMI; and a lineage of change over time and power relations between the dashboard user and provided information. Interfaces and dashboards are in constant connection with data. The underlying software structures, algorithms and database governmentalities form the basis on which interfaces and dashboards are created. Both the interface and dashboard provide information to the user, and functions as a mediator between what is on the screen and what the user can collect.
The combination of real-time data, the objective of the dashboard and the 'faith' that is put into the use of a dashboards, provokes the question of dashboard objectivity. There are several key elements relating to dashboards: the interface software structure behind it (what is shown, what is not shown) and the algorithms combined with the power that one accessing a dashboard has over those that do not have access to the dashboard (and hence, the data).
Firstly, the interface that is shown on a dashboard is subject to the subjectivity of the developers. By providing functions or modules build into the (standardized or custom made) dashboard, certain values are enhanced whilst ignoring different information. Because of this, the user of the dashboard is subject to the subjectivity of those that make the dashboard; the user takes part within a "grammar of action" (Agre 745). The grammars of actions are build in, either on request or within a standardized template, to provide the user the best information reaching its objective. Secondly there is the use of algorithms relating to the aggregated data that is shown on dashboards. As Cheney-Lippold suggests, algorithms base their choices on the dividual of ones subject: We no longer find ourselves dealing with the mass/individual pair. Individuals have become dividuals; masses have become samples, data, markets or banks (5). The dividual itself is part of Deleuzes society of control, which elaborates on Foucaults disciplinary societies of closed spaces. Within the society of control, ones dividual is not within an enclosed space, but is in different places at the same time. Though, this explanation is heavily reduced and minimized, it reflects the theories of Foucault and Deleuze. One must know that dividual data is used within a system of algorithms to either place them in or move them between categories, or define new or differentiate existing categories (Cheney-Lippold). At the same time, dividual information may be manipulated by those that provide them, thus creating false data for algorithmically analysis - and thus categorization. Because of this we enter a governmentality Dodge and Kitchin call automated management.
Researching the visual representations of Google Images, one should keep in mind that dashboards themselves are a heavily subjective concept, subject to several discussions related to power, control and software. The approach taken in this study does not reflect any interactive use with the dashboards shown, but keeps the above-mentioned theories in account relating the research question, methodology and results.
The present understanding of the Web opens up the possibility for using online data in order to research society and culture and make online grounded claims (Rogers 4). One could say that we are in an era where the virtual can function as indication of the real. There is no clear boundary between the online and offline anymore; they are intertwined. Therefore, Google is an interesting medium to do research with. An important dualism that should be kept in mind is that of using online media to research the workings of the system and using online media to study societal or cultural developments (Rogers 95-7).
In order to set up a lineage of dashboards and analyze Google Images approach towards the dashboard, a dataset was created for the years 20082014. In general, the dataset consists of images retrieved over the daterange of a year; the year 2008 is an exception because the first images that were saved for the query dashboard on Google Images only date back to the 16th of April 2008. Therefore, the dataset for the year 2008 started from that point on.
Therefore, there had to be a slight change in methodology. The top thirty results were harvested using the Google Image Scraper tool, the larger images were downloaded manually. The Google Image Scraper tool was used to fetch the URls to Google Image results with a specified date range. The top 30 images of these result pages were manually downloaded and sorted in order of Google raning.
As mentioned in relation to the query design, our aim was to have an as neutral as possible starting point. Therefore, there is no preliminary set of categories decided on to allocate different types of dashboards. Instead, we have used an emergent coding scheme to define different categories, by evaluating the dataset per year. We have decided upon categories based on the discernable trends per year, which are demarcated as followed:
External data vs. native online data
Overall, throughout the dataset there is a shift visible from dashboards that use external data that was not produced online towards dashboards that are based on data with an online source, natively online data. There is a decreasing number of dashboards featuring external data whilst there is an increase visible in those featuring native online data throughout the years that were being taken into consideration in the analysis. In general, there are a few shifts that could be identified out of these results: from documenting to monitoring, from archived data to actionable data (as fundament for concrete future steps), from savers of knowledge to producers of knowledge.
Static vs. interactive
All years feature substantial use of icons. there are no big changes in the quantity of icons over most years, except for 2008 that featured about half the amount of use of icons compared to the other years. 43% of the dashboards in 2008 feature the use of icons. 67% up to 87% of dashboards between 2009-2014 feature the use of icons. The analysis provided no clues for an increase or decrease in icon use over time. Differences mostly occurred in relation to design trends as icons become more visually abstract, decreasingly reflecting the real world. An interesting notion is the rise of social icons as well as the appearance of the mechanical cog wheel to indicate settings.
Skeuomorphism (analog metaphors)
Overall, skeuomorphism is limited mostly to old dashboard meters. We can see these kind of meters getting more abstract over the years and less dashboards use meters as a metaphor. From a control standpoint: skeuomorphism are used to give a sense of comfort and familiarity through design which could be seen as a form of control for the user. It can also have direct effect on the usability of the dashboard. The more familiar the dashboard design, the easier it is to understand and the more 'control' the user feels. Interestingly the skeuomorphisms are used less over the years, which could indicate that this idea of familiarity has changed (people have been getting used to digital formats).
First of all we should address that a lot of decisions we made during the process were based on practical considerations. For instance, we chose five categories because it was an easy number to divide between groups. We chose 30 pictures because we had to do it manually and more would be too much work in the set timeframe. The categorization we made relating to the categories are also not objective, and thus we suggest that more research needs to be done in this categorization process, both on a qualitative and quantitative basis.
The results show that there is a decrease in skeuomorphism and external data, and an increase in personalized dashboards, the use of iconography and interactivity. Out of this, we can conclude that the representation of dashboards through the medium of Google Image search, changes over time towards a more personalized, interactive dashboards. Although controversial, this could be linked to the increase in data gathering practices and the introduction of (personalized) tools over the researched years. The images retrieved from Google Images show that dashboards still mediate between the data and user, although we can speculate who is the user: either an organization, government or person.To describe the way we experienced the representation of dashboards, we want to propose to use the cog wheel as a visual metaphor that reminds us of the mechanical age. The cog wheel offers more control to users by customizing and adjusting the dashboard according to their own wishes. However, users do not have real control because there is only a predefined route to follow. Deleuze uses the highway system as metaphor for this situation: drivers think they are able to choose their own route, but are limited to the highway routes that are already determined for them. This metaphor could be adjusted to dashboards as well: we can conclude that users are getting more control in the sense of adjusting settings and customizing layouts, but these possibilities are already pre-defined.
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The former leader of the Bling Ring was back in jail Monday on a parole violation for allegedly carrying a gun.
Nicholas F. Prugo was questioned in connection with Edward Feinstein — who was arrested in a murder-for-hire case involving two skin-care specialists — then taken into custody Friday on suspicion of violating his parole, according to police and sheriff's deputies.
Prugo served about a year of two-year sentence in the Bling Ring case before being paroled. He and a group of friends, mostly from Calabasas, used social media to determine when celebrities were out on the town in order to burglarize their homes.
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Ulysses factsheet
Ulysses, a joint ESA/NASA mission, was launched aboard the Space Shuttle on 6 October 1990 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading for an unprecedented journey of discovery. It was the first mission to study the unknown environment of space above and below the poles of the Sun. With Ulysses, scientists obtained the first-ever four-dimensional map of the heliosphere – the bubble generated by the solar wind that defines the sphere of influence of the Sun.
Originally designed for a lifetime of five years, the mission has surpassed all expectations. The reams of data returned by Ulysses have forever changed the way scientists view the Sun and its effect on the space surrounding it.
After more than 17 years of observations, almost four times its expected lifetime, and having surmounted several operational challenges, Ulysses is now approaching its natural end. Its power supply is unable to keep the spacecraft warm enough, leaving it to succumb to the cold conditions in space.
History and status
The mission has a long and interesting history. The idea of sending a spacecraft to explore regions of space far from the Solar System's ecliptic plane was first proposed in 1959, but the technology was then not ready.
ESA and NASA first studied the possibility of a joint out-of-ecliptic mission in 1974. This mission, in which two spacecraft were to be sent over the poles of the Sun, was approved in 1977. By 1981, the International Solar Polar Mission, or ISPM as it was then called, had turned into a single-craft mission, comprising a European-built probe, with half the instruments from Europe and the rest from the US.
Originally approved for launch in 1983, a number of delays meant it was eventually launched by Space Shuttle Discovery in 1990.
During the course of its mission, Ulysses has been joined in space by other missions (SOHO, Wind, ACE, Hinode, STEREO). Together, they form a network that is studying the Sun and its environment as never before.
After just over 17.5 years, the mission is approaching its end. The declining output from the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG), which provides power for the craft and its payload, is unable to provide enough heat. This means that the fuel for the thrusters will freeze. In mid-January 2008, the situation worsened when the main radio transmitter failed – its warmth kept the fuel from freezing.
To overcome these difficulties, ground controllers have been using a smaller transmitter to ensure that as much science as possible is returned from Ulysses in the last few weeks of its life.
The mission is expected to end by 1 July. Once it is clear that the fuel needed to keep the main antenna pointing towards Earth has started to freeze, ground controllers will put Ulysses into a stable configuration. It will continue to orbit the Sun indefinitely.
Launch and journey
Ulysses was launched on 6 October 1990 at 12:47:15 CET, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA, aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. It was first placed in a low-Earth orbit and then two propulsion modules injected it into an interplanetary orbit. Sixteen months later, on 8 February 1992, having travelled nearly a thousand million km, Ulysses reached Jupiter where a gravity-assist manoeuvre swung the craft into its unique solar orbit that takes it over the Sun's poles.
The orbit was chosen to allow Ulysses to chart the heliosphere at all solar latitudes.
The orbit is an ellipse with the Sun at one focus (heliocentric), and is inclined 80° with respect to the Sun's equator (polar). The orbital period is 6.2 years. Maximum distance from the Sun (aphelion) is reached at about 810 million km (or 5.4 AU; one AU or Astronomical Unit equals the average distance between Earth and the Sun, or about 150 million km) and minimum distance (perihelion) is at about 200 million km (or 1.3 AU).
The gravity-assist at Jupiter meant that Ulysses performed a polar pass first over the Sun's south pole and then over its north pole roughly a year later. The polar passes are periods during which the spacecraft is above 70° heliospheric latitude in either hemisphere. The mission was designed to maximise the total duration of each polar pass.
Over more than 17 years of operation, Ulysses has orbited the Sun three times and performed six polar passes:
- South pole: June–November 1994, September 2000 – January 2001, November 2006 – April 2007
- North pole: June–September 1995, August–December 2001, November 2007 – March 2008
Distance travelled
During its mission, Ulysses has travelled 8.6 thousand million km (or 57.65 AU) at an average speed of 56 000 km/ hr. This corresponds to the distance a spacecraft must travel to reach more than half-way to the edge of the heliosphere, well beyond the orbit of Pluto (39.5 AU).
Mission objectives
The goal of Ulysses was to study the heliosphere – the magnetic bubble created by the solar wind which carries the solar magnetic field well beyond the outer reaches of the Solar System – in four dimensions (space and time). The study of the solar wind, a constant stream of charged particles expelled by the Sun, has also been one of the major objectives. This 'wind' is very different from wind on Earth, but its gusts and shocks which cause aurora and magnetic storms may affect weather on Earth and can harm satellites, power supplies and communications.
The science objectives of the Ulysses mission were:
- to determine the solar wind's global properties and behaviour in three dimensions, to study its origin by measuring its composition at different solar latitudes, and to learn more about waves and shocks by sampling solar wind conditions at all latitudes
- to study how energetic particles of solar and interplanetary origin move and are accelerated by observing their properties at all latitudes
- to study the magnetic field of the Sun and of the heliosphere
- to study galactic cosmic rays – mainly protons and electrons with high energies – and to learn more about their origin
- to learn more about how the heliosphere interacts with interstellar space, and to improve our understanding of interplanetary and interstellar gas and dust
- to look for gamma-ray burst sources and, in combination with observations from other spacecraft, help identify them with known celestial objects.
Major discoveries
Thanks to its suite of instruments and its special orbit around the Sun, in addition to the long duration of its mission – a major achievement on its own – the key discoveries of Ulysses range from the best-ever understanding of the heliosphere and the role played by its magnetic field in all the phenomena occurring inside it, to important astrophysical questions such as the evolution of the Universe. Key discoveries:
Nature and behaviour of the heliosphere's magnetic field. Ulysses has found that the heliospheric magnetic field, which originates from the Sun's magnetic field, is both more complicated and at the same time simpler than previously thought. It is more complicated because its field lines do not follow an ordered spiral but a more chaotic pattern and spread more in latitude than initially believed. It is simpler because the Sun's magnetic dipole – similar to a bar magnet – simply rotates by 180° to accomplish the known reversal in polarity. Besides, at distances beyond three to five times the radius of the Sun, the outward (radial) component has the same strength at all latitudes.
The solar wind in four dimensions. Ulysses found that, at solar minimum, the wind from the cooler regions close to the Sun's poles fans out to fill two thirds of the heliosphere, and blows at a uniform speed of 750 km/s (fast wind), much faster than the wind that emerges from the Sun's equatorial zone at 350 km/s. Ulysses also studied the origin of the wind in the solar corona, the nature of the magnetic field it carries away from the Sun, and its interaction with the interstellar gas and plasma that surrounds the heliosphere.
Energetic particles climb up to the Sun's poles. Ulysses has revealed that previous ideas on how charged energetic particles are transported in the heliosphere need thorough revision. Since the Sun's magnetic field lines, which drive the flow of charged particles, are more chaotic and can undergo big excursions in latitude, such particles can also be found over the poles even at solar minimum, far away from the solar storms that originated them. This is important, as astronauts in deep space may be exposed to radiation from sources previously considered 'safe'.
No easier access to the heliosphere for cosmic rays. Ulysses found that at solar minimum, cosmic rays from within our galaxy do not have – as previously believed – any easier access to the heliosphere at the polar regions where the magnetic field was thought to be weaker and more radial. On the contrary, their distribution is almost spherically symmetric. This is the result of waves propagating along magnetic field lines in the fast solar wind that oppose this access.
'Titanic shock' between the heliosphere and interstellar gas. The nature of the interstellar cloud of dust and gas that the Solar System crosses and the size of the heliosphere can now be better understood thanks to Ulysses's measurements of interstellar helium that penetrates the heliosphere itself. Ulysses also found that interstellar wind is fast enough to create a shockwave where the heliosphere's outer fringes meet interstellar gas, affecting the access of the gas itself.
Interstellar dust can enter the heliosphere. For the first time, Ulysses detected tiny dust particles of interstellar origin, proving that they can enter the heliosphere.
Lifetime of galactic cosmic rays. Ulysses has studied the abundance of many radioactive cosmic rays (produced when cosmic rays collide with atoms of interstellar gas and lose neutrons or protons, leaving behind radioactive species); only two kinds were measured prior to Ulysses. It showed that they spend most of their lifetimes of 10–20 million years in the galactic halo (the area above and below our galaxy's disc where the amount of matter is significantly lower) before they reach us.
- Will the Universe collapse in the end? Ulysses measured the abundances of helium isotopes in interstellar gas for the first time. These measurements, which are important for studies of the Big Bang, support the theory by which the amount of matter in the Universe is not enough to lead to a final cosmic collapse at the end of time.
Design: the overall design was dictated by the large distances from Earth and the Sun (up to 950 million km from Earth, 810 million km from the Sun). At such distances, solar power could not provide enough electricity; instead, a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator was provided. A large antenna (1.65 m diameter) was necessary to communicate with Earth from large distances. The thermal design had to accommodate the widely-varying temperatures during the mission. The electronics were hardened to withstand the strong radiation near to Jupiter during the close flyby in 1992.
Mass: 366.7 kg at launch
Dimensions: 3.2 x 3.3 x 2.1 m LxWxH
What's on board?
The 10 instruments consist of an array of sophisticated sensors for gauging the invisible wind, ions and electrons, dust grains and gas, magnetic fields, radio and plasma waves, X-rays, and gamma-rays that permeate the space around the Sun.
Magnetometer (MAG): MAG has been performing measurements of the magnetic field in the heliosphere and studying how it varies at different heliospheric latitudes. Measurements of Jupiter's magnetic field were also performed.
Principal Investigator: A. Balogh, Imperial College of London (UK).
Solar Wind Plasma Experiment (SWOOPS): The SWOOPS experiment has been studying the solar wind at all solar distances and latitudes and in three dimensions.
Principal Investigator: D.J. McComas, Southwest Research Institute (USA)
Solar Wind Ion Composition Instrument (SWICS): SWICS has been determining the composition, temperature and speed of the atoms and ions that comprise the solar wind.
Principal Investigators: J. Geiss, ISSI (CH) and G. Gloekler, University of Michigan (USA).
Unified Radio and Plasma Wave Instrument (URAP): URAP has been studying radio waves from the Sun and electromagnetic waves generated in the solar wind close to the spacecraft.
Principal Investigator: R.J. MacDowall, NASA/GSFC (USA).
Energetic Particle Instrument (EPAC) and GAS: EPAC has been investigating the energy, fluxes and distribution of energetic particles in the heliosphere, while GAS studied the electrically-uncharged gas (helium) of interstellar origin.
Principal Investigator: N. Krupp, Max Plank Institute for Solar System Research, Lindau (D).
Low-Energy Ion and Electron Experiment (HI-SCALE): HI-SCALE has been investigating the energy, fluxes and distribution of energetic particles in the heliosphere.
Principal Investigator: L.J. Lanzerotti, New Jersey Inst. of Technology (USA).
Cosmic Ray and Solar Particle Instrument (COSPIN): COSPIN has been investigating the energy, fluxes and distribution of energetic particles and galactic cosmic rays in the heliosphere.
Principal Investigator: R.B. McKibben, University of New Hampshire (USA).
Solar X-ray and Cosmic Gamma-Ray Burst Instrument (GRB): GRB has been studying cosmic gammaray bursts and X-rays from solar flares.
Principal Investigator: K. Hurley, UC Berkeley (USA).
Dust Experiment (DUST): DUST has carried out direct measurements of interplanetary and interstellar dust grains to investigate their properties as functions of the distance from the Sun and solar latitude.
Principal Investigator: H. Krüger, Max Plank Institute for Solar System Research, Lindau (D).
Ulysses is a joint ESA/NASA mission. ESA provided the spacecraft, built by Astrium GmbH, Friedrichshafen, Germany (formerly Dornier Systems). NASA provided the Space Shuttle launch and the Inertial Upper Stage and the Payload Assist Module to put Ulysses into its correct orbit. NASA also provided the RTG to power the craft and payload. ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) and European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) have been managing the mission with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Ulysses is tracked by NASA's Deep Space Network. A joint ESA/NASA team at JPL has overseen spacecraft operations and data management. Teams from universities and research institutes in Europe and the United States provided the 10 science instruments.
The overall cost of Ulysses is about €1000 million at today's prices. ESA's share has been about €450 million at current prices, including the spacecraft and about €2.5 million annually for spacecraft operations. NASA's share has been about $520 million (about €338 million) at current prices, including development, launch and 17 years of mission operations and data analysis. The European instruments, hardware and operations have been funded nationally.
ESA Mission Manager & Project Scientist: Richard Marsden
ESA Mission Operations Manager: Nigel Angold
NASA Project Manager: Ed B. Massey
NASA Project Scientist: Edward J. Smith


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Place the numbers 1 to 9 once in each row, column, long diagonal (marked with a heavy dot) and every 3x3 grid.
The 'cage' inclusions (individually coloured regions) indicate the sum or the product of the numbers in those cells.
Unlike Killer Sudoku, the same number may appear more than once in a cage. So, 36x in a cage which overlaps the 3x3 grids may contain two 6s and a 1.
My inspiration for this puzzle came from a variety of puzzles posted by Pete and Will at http://sudexel.com/forum/index.php
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