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Gary McKinnon will not face a new criminal investigation in England, prosecutors say
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Computer hacker Gary McKinnon will face no charges in the United Kingdom over what the U.S. government says is the biggest military computer hacking of all time, British prosecutors said Friday.
The Crown Prosecution Service announcement follows a decision two months ago by Home Secretary Theresa May to block his extradition to the United States to face trial on health grounds.
She said then that UK prosecutors must decide if a new criminal case should be opened in England.
Read more: UK blocks hacker McKinnon's extradition to U.S.
The prosecution service and London's Metropolitan Police said in a joint statement that their decision not to do so reflected the difficulty of trying the case in Britain when most of the evidence and witnesses are in the United States.
"The prospects of a conviction against Mr. McKinnon, which reflects the full extent of his alleged criminality, are not high," the statement said.
UK authorities believe the United States is the appropriate place for the case to be tried, it said.
McKinnon fought a decade-long battle against extradition before May's move to block it in October because of his health.
The 46-year-old has Asperger syndrome and depressive illness, as well as schizophrenia and other mental health issues.
He has admitted breaking into computers at NASA and the Pentagon, but says he did so to find out if the U.S. government was covering up the existence of UFOs.
The U.S. government says McKinnon accessed 97 computers from his home in London for a year starting in March 2001, costing the government about $1 million.
He is accused of breaking into military, NASA and civilian networks, and accessing computers at the Pentagon; Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Meade, Maryland; the Earle Naval Weapons Station in Colts Neck, New Jersey; and the Johnson Space Center in Houston, among others.
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Inside your body, standing at attention in your blood, tissues, and organs, there are millions of tiny troopers mobilized against invaders. They are the cells of your immune system, a powerful battalion divided into regiments: some attacking on the front lines, some sneaking into enemy territory to gather information, some running messages to the generals who will map the battle plan. They do a good job — a great job, even — but they are not invincible.
Occasionally, your body meets a foe too strong or too devious to overpower on its own. Cancer is one such opponent. This disease is almost impossible to defeat without enlisting foreign aid; traditionally, surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. These therapies are powerful, but they have limitations.
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Dr. Urba leads a team of researchers who are focused on developing new therapies that do just that. The treatments they are investigating are designed to boost the immune system's ability to identify and mount an informed attack against abnormal cells, leaving healthy cells alone. This approach, called immunotherapy, offers the potential for treatments more tailored and less toxic than traditional therapies.
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Immunotherapy rsearch underway at the Franz Cancer Center is focused on the development of therapeutic agents to fight cancer using the immune system.
"A cancer cell is different in every patient," Dr. Urba says. "If you take five women with breast cancer, the cancers in those five women are not the same. The genetic changes that caused the malignancy probably have something in common, but they are not identical in each patient."
Immunotherapy research is currently focused on understanding the differences between individual cancers, and refining the immune system's responses to cancer. Knowledge gained will help determine answers to the most important questions in cancer vaccine research, according to Dr. Urba: "Can we consistently induce a strong immune response to tumor antigens in patients with cancer, and if we do, will the tumor go away?"
Current immunotherapy research, combined with ongoing study of genetic mutations that increase a person's risk of cancer, may someday make preventive cancer vaccines possible. But as a first step, it is hoped that immunotherapy will offer effective new treatment options for existing disease.
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Franz Cancer Center scientists are focused on researching immunotherapies for many cancer types: melanoma, breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, renal cell (kidney) cancer, colon cancer and others.
Kidney cancer and melanoma have shown the most susceptibility to immunotherapeutic approaches. These cancers have little in common except a unique record of spontaneous remissions. "In both types of cancer, there are extremely rare cases in which the tumors have just gone away," Dr. Urba says. "Our hypothesis is that the patients' immune system came into effect, but we don't know why it happens in these patients and not in others."
In addition, when early immunotherapy agents were tested on a variety of cancers, melanoma and kidney cancers proved unusually susceptible to the therapies. Because of these characteristics, most cancer immunotherapy researchers are studying these two cancers.
Efforts to find effective immunotherapies for breast, prostate, lung cancer and colon cancer are underway primarily because the diseases are major public health problems. "When we find something that works for these types of cancer, it will help a lot of people," Dr. Urba says.
The future of immunotherapy
Two immunotherapy agents have been recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in patients with advanced cancer. Both new agents are monoclonal antibodies. Rituxan® (rituximab) is used to treat patients with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and Herceptin® (Trastuzumab) is used to treat women with breast cancer. Neither Rituxan nor Herceptin are curative, but they are extending survival in people with advanced disease.
Dr. Urba expects that within the next decade, immunotherapy will begin to play a prominent role — alongside surgery, radiation and chemotherapy — in the treatment of more cancers.
Is an immunotherapy trial right for you?
Cancer immunotherapy research is still in its early stages. While it may eventually become an important therapeutic tool, it is not approved as standard treatment for people with cancer.
For people who have been diagnosed with cancer and are choosing a treatment approach, Dr. Urba recommends the following steps:
Select a good doctor in whom you have confidence
Have a frank conversation with him or her about what the standard treatments are, and take the time to research your options
Participate in all conventional therapies that are available to you
"If standard treatments don't work or an effective treatment is not available for your type of tumor," Dr. Urba says, "You should discuss experimental options with your physician. Bear in mind that not all experimental therapy is immunotherapy. I encourage you to consider all kinds of experimental therapy to find what's right for you."
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In 2005, on Google's sprawling, college-like campus, the most secret and ambitious of many, many teams was Google's own smartphone effort—the Android project. Tucked in a first-floor corner of Google's Building 44, surrounded by Google ad reps, its four dozen engineers thought that they were on track to deliver a revolutionary device that would change the mobile phone industry forever.
By January 2007, they'd all worked sixty-to-eighty-hour weeks for fifteen months—some for more than two years—writing and testing code, negotiating software licenses, and flying all over the world to find the right parts, suppliers, and manufacturers. They had been working with prototypes for six months and had planned a launch by the end of the year . . . until Jobs took the stage to unveil the iPhone.
Chris DeSalvo's reaction to the iPhone was immediate and visceral. "As a consumer I was blown away. I wanted one immediately. But as a Google engineer, I thought 'We're going to have to start over.'"
For most of Silicon Valley—including most of Google—the iPhone's unveiling on January 9, 2007 was something to celebrate. Jobs had once again done the impossible. Four years before he'd talked an intransigent music industry into letting him put their catalog on iTunes for ninety-nine cents a song. Now he had convinced a wireless carrier to let him build a revolutionary smartphone. But for the Google Android team, the iPhone was a kick in the stomach.
"What we had suddenly looked just so . . . nineties," DeSalvo said. "It's just one of those things that are obvious when you see it."
The cell phone industry in 2005 was the perfect example of a hairy Google-size problem. The software industry for mobile phones was one of the most dysfunctional in all technology. There wasn't enough wireless bandwidth for users to surf the Internet on a phone without frustration. Phones weren't powerful enough to run anything but rudimentary software. But the biggest problem, as Jobs had learned, was that the industry was ruled by an oligopoly: Few companies besides the carriers and the phone makers were writing software for phones, and what existed was terrible. Wireless bandwidth would improve and phone chips would get more powerful; but back then it looked as if the carriers and phone makers would control it all.
"We had done a deal with Vodafone [the big European carrier] to try to get Google search on their phones," said one top Google executive who would not give his name. "But the search they offered us was that we could put some results on, but that they would control most of them, and that our results would be at the bottom of every query. They didn't have a good mobile browser. Ring-tones [that they were selling] sometimes got prioritized in search results. All the carriers were doing this. They thought they could provide all the services inside a walled garden [as AOL had in the 1990s], and that this control was the best way to make money."
On the day Jobs announced the iPhone, the director of the Android team, Andy Rubin, was six hundred miles away in Las Vegas, on his way to a meeting with one of the myriad handset makers and carriers that descend on the city for the Consumer Electronics Show. He reacted exactly as DeSalvo predicted. Rubin was so astonished by what Jobs was unveiling that, on his way to a meeting, he had his driver pull over so that he could finish watching the webcast.
"Holy crap," he said to one of his colleagues in the car. "I guess we're not going to ship that phone."
What the Android team had been working on, a phone code-named Sooner, sported software that was arguably more revolutionary than what had just been revealed in the iPhone. In addition to having a full Internet browser, and running all of Google's great web applications, such as search, Maps, and YouTube, the software was designed not just to run on Sooner, but on any smartphone, tablet, or other portable device not yet conceived. It would never need to be tethered to a laptop or desktop. It would allow multiple applications to run at the same time, and it would easily connect to an online store of other applications that Google would seed and encourage. By contrast, the iPhone needed to connect to iTunes regularly, it wouldn't run more than one application at a time, and in the beginning it had no plans to allow anything resembling an application store.
However, the Sooner phone was ugly. It looked like a Black-Berry, with a traditional keyboard and a small screen that wasn't touch-enabled. Rubin and his team, along with partners HTC and T-Mobile, believed consumers would care more about the great software it contained than its looks. This was conventional wisdom back then. Revolutionary phone designs rarely succeeded. The Nokia N-Gage, which in 2003 tried to combine a gaming system with a phone and email device, often gets mentioned here. RIM had become one of the dominant smartphone makers on the planet by making BlackBerry's unadorned functionality one of its main selling points: you got a phone, an incredible keyboard, secure email, all in one indestructible package.
The iPhone, in contrast, was not only cool looking, but it used those cool looks to create entirely new ways to interact with a phone—ways that Android engineers either hadn't thought possible or had considered too risky. By using a virtual keyboard and replacing most real buttons with software-generated buttons on a big touchscreen, every application could now have its own unique set of controls. Play, Pause, and Stop buttons only appeared if you were listening to music or watching video. When you went to type a web address into the browser, the keyboard appeared, but it disappeared when you hit Enter. Without the physical keyboard taking up half the phone, the iPhone had a screen twice the size of virtually every other phone on the market. It all worked the same way whether the user held the phone in portrait or landscape mode. Apple had installed an accelerometer to use gravity to tell the phone how to orient the screen.
A lot was wrong with the first iPhone too. Rubin and the Android team—along with many others—did not think users would take to typing on a screen without the tactile feedback of a physical keyboard. That is why the first Android phone—the T-Mobile G1 from HTC, nearly two years later—had a slide-out keyboard. But what was also undeniable to the Android team was that they had underestimated Jobs. At the very least, Jobs had come up with a new way of interacting with a device— with a finger instead of a stylus or dedicated buttons—and likely a lot more. "We knew that Apple was going to announce a phone. Everyone knew that. We just didn't think it would be that good," said Ethan Beard, one of Android's early business development executives.
Within weeks the Android team had completely reconfigured its objectives. A phone with a touchscreen, code-named Dream, that had been in the early stages of development, became the focus. Its launch was pushed out a year until fall 2008. Engineers started drilling into it all the things the iPhone didn't do to differentiate their phone when launch day did occur. Erick Tseng, then Android's project manager, remembers suddenly feeling the nervous excitement of a pending public performance. Tseng had joined Google the year before out of Stanford business school after Eric Schmidt, himself, sold him on the promise of Android.
"I never got the feeling that we should scrap what we were doing—that the iPhone meant game over. But a bar had been set, and whatever we decided to launch, we wanted to make sure that it cleared the bar."
This is excerpted and adapted from the second chapter of Fred Vogelstein's Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution.
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Think Atheist is now holding regular monthly meetings (the third Monday of every month) to discuss topics of interest and simply enjoy the company of other free-thinkers! The site founder, Morgan Matthew, will be in attendance, as well as site administrators, Cara Coleen and Robert Karp.
Please RSVP if you plan on attending. We will head over to Razorbacks afterwards if anyone would like to join us for drinks.
If you are not in the Baltimore area but would like to host your own Think Atheist meet-up, please feel free to contact Morgan Mathew.
To reach Ukazoo Books by car, take I-695 (Baltimore Beltway) toward Towson. Take exit 27A for Dulaney Valley Rd/MD-146 S toward Towson. Dulaney Plaza will be on your right after approximately half a mile. The bookstore is located in the back of the plaza.
OR you can just scan this QR code for the address and auto add the event to your calendar:
Here is the discussion containing the map where we're meeting before the Rally. If you haven't already joined this group, do so! It's much easier to stay in contact there rather than depending on these event pages for communication. :)
Well, I was originally planning on arriving about 9:00 am. Sounds like 8:00 am would be better (even then, my first stop is going to have to be Starbucks!!)
We are, not everyone. I was at the Rally to Restore Sanity and it was ridiculous... absolutely impossible to get anywhere near the stage. If it's anything like that, the earlier, the better. I would rather be overly optimistic and get a spot than assume the turn-out will be minimal then be wayyy on the outskirts. :)
No worries! We'll be posting a map to the place we're meeting before the Rally tomorrow. We're meeting early to be sure we get a good spot on the Mall. 7:30am! Keep your eyes peeled for the map... :)
Sorry I missed the Meet-Up! Work called. :(
I hope to see everyone at the meet-up tonight! We'll be coordinating our trip to the Reason Rally. Be sure to contact us or check out the Baltimore Group for details if you miss tonight's meeting. If anyone missed the opportunity to order a t-shirt, we're going to try to hand out stickers tonight to wear at the Rally so we can find each other in the crowd if anyone misses the metro at 7am.
Or it might have been my "smart" phone dropping a few critical bits...
Sorry about that Boothby! We'll fix that :)
The QR code gave me wrong data and times for my Google Calendar...needed some tweaking.
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text: Le samedi 24 février 2007 23:00, Klaus Schmidinger a écrit : > Dominique Dumont wrote: > > ... > > For low level CI API, i.e. Hauppauge TT cards), the CI stack is ~90% > > implemented in software in the DVB application. > > > > For high level CI (i.e Twinhan and clones), the stack is half > > implemented in firmare (i.e. bugs can't be fixed) and half in software > > in the application. AFAIK, vdr can't handle high-level CI API. > > > >From what I can see in http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/CI all that > > VDR would have to do in order to use the "high level API" would be to > go from the application layer directly to the CAM. However, I don't know > of any driver API for this. Can you give me a hint how the "high level API" > should be accessed through the LinuxDVB driver? IIRC, you just have to send a pmt msg. -- Christophe Thommeret


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Halo 4: new multiplayer modes detailed, coming next week
Halo 4 developer 343 has confirmed that it is adding new multiplayer modes to its shooter next week. Check out the details below.
The studio will add a FFA Throwback playlist into the mix, which contains lone-wolf strains of Oddball and King of the Hill. These new game types go live from Monday and have been created for those looking for a hard free-for-all challenge.
The playlist will include maps Haven, Abandon, Adrift, Complex and Solace and allows for a party size of seven. Both Oddball and King of the Hill matches last 12 minutes apiece and require 100 and 50 points to win respectively.
Halo Waypoint's Jessica Shea said of the new modes, "If you've been dominating these modes with teammates, see how the game changes when it's every Spartan for themselves.
We'll see indeed. What do you make of the new additions? Let us know below.
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Gigi Hadid & Zayn Malik Hang Out at Taylor Swift's Place!
About Photo #1024181: Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik hold hands while leaving Gigi's apartment on Monday (September 12) in New York City. The 21-year-old model and the 23-year-old singer… Read The Post Here
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(NASHVILLE SKYLINE is a column by CMT/CMT.com Editorial Director Chet Flippo.)
A recent George Jones CD release has become one of the more desirable Jones keepers in his canon of recordings. George Jones: The Complete United Artists Solo Singles contains 32 Jones singles. Both the A-sides and B-sides are included.
Remember those? The label would release what it thought would be the artist's next hit. And since the format for singles releases was the 45 RPM record that was double-sided, there needed to be a song for the B-side. Occasionally, but not often, a savvy disc jockey would notice that the B-side also had hit potential and would play it. That was discouraged by the labels because they didn't want an artist to be competing with himself. Even so, Jones would sometimes have success with both sides of a record.
These were the years of the George Jones of the bristling flat-top, when his hair was sticking up like a … well, like a hair brush. In 1962, he had just finished up a five-year run with Mercury Records and decided to jump to United Artists Records.
In leaving Mercury Records for United Artists, Jones made a dramatic career move. In those days of many record labels competing with each other, it did matter what an artist's label home was. At UA, Jones had the best backing band in town. The so-called A-Team of studio musicians included guitarist Grady Martin, bassist Bob Moore, pianist Pig Robbins and drummer Buddy Harmon.
Jones began his recording career with the Texas label Starday Records in 1954 and moved on to Nashville's Mercury Records, where he had the huge hit "White Lightning" in 1959. It was his first No. 1 hit and was followed by another, "Tender Years," in 1961.
At UA, Jones notched only one No. 1 hit with "She Thinks I Still Care." He came close with other releases. "The Race Is On" is now remembered as a smash hit for Jones, but it made it only to No. 3. The same was the case for the superb Jack Clement song "A Girl I Used to Know." And his duet with Melba Montgomery on "We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds" also made it to No. 3. Jones had already begun a lifetime tradition of recording duets — with men as well as with women — while still at Starday (with Jeanette Hicks) and at Mercury (with Margie Singleton).
There are some genuinely memorable, if bordering on bizarre, songs in his UA catalog. Jones was regularly tapping into his lifelong themes of sadness, grief, death and loss. One striking song is "The Old, Old House." Some lyrics from it:
"There's an old, old man who walks in the garden
And his head is bowed in memory
They say he built the mansion for the love of a woman
And they planned to be married in the fall
But her love withered in the last days of summer
And the house stands empty after all"
"Open Pit Mine" is in the tradition of the Appalachian love/betrayal/murder/suicide song. Some lyrics:
"Her love would bring heartbreak that I would soon learn
'Cause she would two-time me when my back was turned
Rosey would go dancin' and drink the red wine
While I worked like a slave in that open pit mine
"One night I caught Rosey on her rendezvous
She was huggin' and kissin' with somebody new
It was there that I shot 'em while their arms were entwined
Then I buried her deep in that open pit mine"
Then the narrator kills himself and joins Rosey in that open pit mine.
The very song title gives away the song with many of these: "My Tears Are Overdue," "A Good Old Fashioned Cry," "Big Fool of the Year," "Where Does a Little Tear Come From" and "Sometimes You Just Can't Win."
But the words don't tell the whole story. You need that classic haunting voice, caressing and coaxing and pulling all the aches and suffering from those songs.
His last UA single, in 1966, was "Best Guitar Picker," which is one thing he never became in life.
Released in February, this new collection comprises 32 songs. Most of them are now obscure. They don't deserve to be. Some of Jones' finest singing (as well as writing) is featured here. These songs deserve to breathe again.


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Student-loan debt could indeed be keeping more young adults from buying a home of their own, according to an analysis posted on Tuesday.
While both 30-year-olds with and without student loans have retreated from the housing market, homeownership rates have declined more for those with histories of student debt. And that's a notable reversal from the norm, according to an analysis posted on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Liberty Street Economics blog, using data from the FRBNY Consumer Credit Panel.
"Prior to the most recent recession, homeownership rates were substantially higher for thirty-year-olds with a history of student debt than for those without. This pre-recession pattern is typically explained by the fact that student debt holders have higher levels of education on average, and hence, higher income potential," wrote authors Meta Brown, Sydnee Caldwell and Sarah Sutherland. "Simply put, these more educated, often higher-earning, consumers were more likely to buy homes by the age of thirty."
That changed in 2012. That year marked the first time in a decade that 30-year-olds with no history of student loans were more likely to have a mortgage than those who did take on student loan debt, the researchers found. And 30-year-olds with student debt were still less likely to have bought a home in 2013—even though the housing market, in general, showed marked improvements.
Average total debt for student borrowers rose to $30,227 in 2013, from $29,872 in 2012, according to the report. Meanwhile, the debt of nonstudent borrowers continued to decline in 2013.
Of course, it's likely that student-loan debt isn't the only thing keeping young consumers on the sidelines. Limited access to credit, lowered expectations for future earnings and cultural shifts that have young adults deferring home purchases could all play a role, the authors concluded.
"Whatever the cause of student borrowers' reticence, the housing market rebound of 2013 appears to have proceeded without the help of this skilled set of young buyers," they wrote in the post.
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Toughest markets for renters looking to buy
Why millennials are hurting the real-estate market


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Piz Daint Supercomputer to be Enhanced with NVIDIA Tesla K20X GPUs
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) is upgrading its Piz Daint supercomputer with NVIDIA Tesla K20X GPUs, with the assistance of Cray, the supercomputer company. After its upgrade, Piz Daint will be the first petascale supercomputer in Switzerland.
This announcement was made at the keynote address by NVIDIA's CEO at GTC 2013 and we managed to get more details from the company after his address. The Tesla K20X GPU marks an improvement over the Tesla K20; although they share the same NVIDIA Kepler GK110 GPU, the Tesla K20X chip sports more CUDA cores at 2,688 than the K20's 2,496 CUDA cores. The Tesla K20X features 6GB of GDDR5 video memory, with a 250GB/s memory bandwidth. Upon the upgraded supercomputer's commission, Piz Daint will operate COSMO, a weather simulation program that drives seven major weather services, and is also used by approximately fifty research institutions for their HPC needs.
COSMO is expected gain up to three times for key modules' performances due to the presence of its new Tesla GPUs. It is also expected to more accurately predict the weather for the Swiss Alps with more simulations and at a higher resolution at up a unit area of one square kilometer. NVIDIA also shared that the COSMO application is based on the OpenACC standard and CUDA framework to take advantage of the strengths of GP-GPU computing for its weather simulation requirements.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Andre Hollins scored 14 points, and No. 14 Minnesota defeated Southern California 71-57 on Saturday night, giving coach Tubby Smith his 500th career victory.
Rodney Williams added 13 points and 11 rebounds, and Trevor Mbakwe had 12 points for the Gophers (10-1), who led all the way in winning their sixth in a row on their first trip to play USC in Los Angeles since Dec. 29, 1980.
Smith became the 19th active Division I coach to reach that win mark.
Reserve Omar Oraby scored all of his 15 points in the second half to lead USC (3-6).
Byron Wesley added 13 points and Jio Fontan had nine. Dewayne Dedmon grabbed 10 rebounds. The Trojans have lost five in a row and six of seven.
USC cut its deficit to single digits for the first time in the second half on a basket by Oraby with 5:41 remaining. He struggled at the line, making just 1 of 5 free throws. That was the closest the Trojans came as Hollins scored six of the Gophers' final 10 points.
USC committed 17 turnovers, went 1 of 11 from 3-point range and got beat on the boards 40-32. The Gophers had 10 steals, although they had 15 miscues.
The Gophers raced to a 23-10 lead, including the game's first nine points, before the slow-starting Trojans played them nearly evenly the rest of the first half. Fontan made 5 of 6 free throws as USC closed the half by outscoring the Gophers 16-15 to trail 38-26.


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BURNABY, METRO VANCOUVER -- The latest in the string of railway derailments that has Canadians worrying about safety is being blamed on a lowly beaver in Burnaby.
Heavy rain this weekend washed out a beaver dam, the washout damaged nearby Canadian National tracks, and a Canadian Pacific train derailed Saturday morning, spilling coal into a protected waterway, CN spokeswoman Emily Hamer said Sunday.
The derailment comes as a debate rages over using trains to transport crude oil as an alternative or adjunct to pipelines.
Hamer said seven cars of a 152-car train carrying coal went off the CN Rail tracks at around 11 a.m. near Government and Cariboo Roads, north of Burnaby Lake. Four of the cars stayed upright, but three tipped over spilling coal. The train's two crew members were not hurt.
"The beaver had built its dam into where our tracks are and erosion caused the dam to collapse which led to the washout. It affected the integrity of our tracks, which led to the derailment," Hamer said.
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Otto Langer, retired head of habitat assessment and planning for the federal Fisheries department in B.C., said he's surprised something as minor as a beaver dam could put a railway at risk.
"I thought railways were massively engineered structures. I find it amazing that a railway wouldn't be better maintained so a little beaver dam wouldn't be a threat to a railway," Langer said, adding that beaver are common in the Lower Mainland.
A local environmental group, Voters Taking Action on Climate Change, also questioned the maintenance of the line.
"Given that heavy rains were widely forecast for this weekend, this calls into question how closely CN is monitoring the safety status of rail lines used by heavy and long coal trains," the group said in a statement.
The group's director Kevin Washbrook said in an interview that coal trains are very long and very heavy. "If you're going to move more coal trains, there has to be a corresponding increase in vigilance," Washbrook said.
"We do increase monitoring when heavy rains are forecast and we did track inspection very recently — within the last couple of days," CN's Hamer said.
"We do very regular track inspections for the safety of our crews and the communities they run through."
This is the latest in a string of rail accidents, including the one in July in which a train containing crude oil derailed and exploded in Lac-Megantic, Que., killing 47 people. On Tuesday, 17 cars, five of which were carrying crude oil, derailed near Wapske, N.B.
It was revealed last week that the B.C. and Alberta governments will study the transport of crude oil via rail if the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline and the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion don't get the green light. Critics say the concept raises serious environmental and safety issues.
Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan said it is fortunate that the derailment didn't occur in a more populated area where people could have been injured and that the train was carrying coal and not something flammable like oil or bitumen.
He said Burnaby has been pressing the federal government to tell the city what is being transported through Burnaby so that it can plans for rail accidents.
"We have no idea (what's being transported through Burnaby) and you can imagine how that makes me feel, knowing that it's going to be our RCMP officers and our fire department that attend," Corrigan said. "If they don't know what they're dealing with, then how do we react and how do we look after the public? We need to be informed if there are toxic and dangerous substances."
He says Burnaby isn't getting any response and the federal government is increasingly letting the railways regulate themselves.
"The federal government keeps dropping expertise in these areas and depending wholly on these companies to provide the expertise. If there is an accident, there isn't even the capacity on the part of the government to evaluate the damage — they have the companies do that themselves. It has reached the point of absurdity," Corrigan said.
Hamer said that some of the coal spilled into a waterway, but she could not say how much. She said CN and CP crews were assessing the environmental impact Sunday.
"Clean up is well underway and track reconstruction is also underway," Hamer said. The track was expected to reopen late Sunday. CN is working with the B.C. Ministry of Environment on the cleanup, Hamer said.
At the creek, which feeds into Burnaby Lake, there is a sign noting that the waterway is considered a sensitive fish and wildlife habitat, and that the area is protected by Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
Langer, who has been involved in a number of coal cases in court as an expert, said a lot of work has been done to restore that watershed, and that salmon have returned into the Burnaby Lake system.
He said that although coal is not particularly dangerous as a chemical pollutant, it is a physical pollutant that harms fish when they breathe through their gills.
"Coal is fairly inert, but it's a sharp particle. You don't want sediment dumped into a stream and coal is probably especially bad because it's fairly light and will wash down the stream. It will contaminate and pollute fish habitat and it will clog up the gravel in a stream.
"It will affect the invertebrates and the fish," Langer said. "It's a little bit like broken up rock or glass-type fragments, so when the fish breathe water through their mouth or their gills, if sharp particulate matter gets into their gills it does damage."
It's the same reason people are concerned about breathing in coal dust.
"That type of dust does horrible things to your lungs as the coal miners will tell you. It's a light material so it drifts quite easily and it will move around in the water quite easily," Langer said.
Langer said the beavers who lost their dam in the heavy rain should survive.
"Hopefully they can keep the (coal dust) out of their lungs because they breathe out of the air, they don't breathe in water. They have to stick their nose out of the water. Hopefully it won't irritate their fur too much," Langer said, adding that the winter rains should help flush away a lot of the coal dust.
Ken Hall, professor emeritus with the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of B.C., says submerged coal dust could upset the balance of an aquaculture, and that water fowl could be indirectly affected if they eat coal-contaminated marine life. However, he also notes that a coal spill would not be nearly as damaging as an oil or gas spill.
The spill is being viewed by coal critics as ammunition in their fight against the growing volume of coal exports through Port Metro Vancouver.
Within two hours of Saturday's coal spill, Voters Taking Action on Climate Change sent out a statement denouncing plans to expand coal export at
North Vancouver's Neptune terminal. The group claims the port authority rushed through its decision on the Neptune expansion despite growing opposition and demands for public hearings and a health impact assessment.
Washbrook said the incident in Burnaby highlights a fundamental flaw in decision making around expanded coal exports in Metro Vancouver.
"The port authority has absolute power to approve expanded coal exports from publicly owned port lands, and it refuses to acknowledge that those decisions have an impact on surrounding communities," he said in the statement. "Whether it's the health impacts from increased exposure to diesel exhaust or coal dust or train derailments themselves, increased coal exports come at a cost to our neighbourhoods."
Port Metro Vancouver approved last year the $200-million expansion of Neptune Bulk Terminals coal-handling facility. At issue now is the proposed
$15-million Fraser Surrey Docks coal-handling facility, which would take cthermal oal from Wyoming for export overseas.
As well as the health effects of coal dust, critics are concerned about increased locomotive diesel emissions, as well as the implications of increased coal exports on global warming.
Health authorities in the Fraser Valley and Vancouver have weighed in, calling for a comprehensive assessment of the health-effects of the Surrey project.
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Oymyakon is a Russian rural locality (a selo) in Oymyakonsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located along the Indigirka River, 30 kilometers northwest of Tomtor on theKolyma Highway. Oymyakon is one of the coldest permanently inhabited locales on the planet.
Name History:
It is named after the Oymyakon River, whose name reportedly comes from the Even word kheium, meaning "unfrozen patch of water; place where fish spend the winter.However, another source states that the Even word (kheium may be a misspelling) means "frozen lake".
Oymyakon, population 500, is in eastern Yakutia at approximately 750 meters above sea level. At the village's northerly position, day length varies from three hours in December to 21 hours in June.
First are there outside any animals at such a cold temperature?
If you mean domestic animals, in Oymyakon some keep watchdogs outside so to protect the private territory. In this case dogs stay in warm kennels with felt layers. If farm animals like cattles and poultries, they are kept in a special barns. If wild, hunters say they may meet elks, deer, raindeer, hares. Bears, as you know, sleep in the winter.
)-And how many tourists or non-inhabitants?
A dozen of tourists per month, perhaps.
)-How can you travel on long distances? Are the roads usable for cars?
Locals prefer to travel by cars. Cheap, you know. Round trip by plane may costs 400-500 USD depending on distance.
)-Are there functioning mobil phone service?
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It was a bad night for Todd Helton, the cornerstone of the Rockies for 16 seasons, he of the .321 lifetime batting average and 58.7 WAR (good for 11th among active players and higher than Vlad Guerrero, Ichiro, and a slew of others you'd expect to be above Helton). But tonight in Philadelphia, when Placido Polanco came up with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth and chopped a ball to second, Todd Helton seemingly forget how to play baseball. That is to say, he forgot to put his foot on the base, the cornerstone task of a first baseman. He didn't even put up a fight when Alfonso Marquez called Polanco safe. It was hopeless by that point, and Helton knew it.
Update: Helton spoke to reporters after the game and admitted he wasn't ready for the throw and didn't have his foot on the base:
"I should still be on the bag ready, and I wasn't," Helton said. "It's a pretty bad feeling when you're trying to find the bag and the ball's coming. It was a bad situation. I should've been on the bag and it should've been an out. So, it's my fault."


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See also: Panic
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Middle French panique, from Ancient Greek πανικός (panikós, "pertaining to Pan"), from Πάν (Pán, "Pan"). Pan is the god of woods and fields who was the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.
Alternative formsEdit
- panick (obsolete)
panic (comparative more panic, superlative most panic)
- (now rare) Pertaining to the god Pan.
- Of fear, fright etc: sudden or overwhelming (attributed by the ancient Greeks to the influence of Pan).
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, pp.57-8:
- All things were there in a disordered confusion, and in a confused furie, untill such time as by praiers and sacrifices they had appeased the wrath of their Gods. They call it to this day, the Panike terror.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p.537:
- At that moment a flight of birds passed close overhead, and at the whirr of their wings a panic fear seized her.
- 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:
- Terrified, he looked down from the skies / At the waves, and panic blackness filled his eyes.
panic (countable and uncountable, plural panics)
- Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter II, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess[1]:
- Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2
- With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
- (finance, economics) Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices.
- 2008 July 11, Romaine Bostick, "Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Are Sound; Panic Unwarranted, Dodd Says", in Bloomberg:
- "There is sort of a panic going on, and that is not what ought to be," Dodd, a Democrat from Connecticut, said at a press conference in Washington today. "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were never bottom feeders in the residential mortgage market."
- (computing) A kernel panic or system crash.
Derived termsEdit
overpowering fright
panic (third-person singular simple present panics, present participle panicking, simple past and past participle panicked)
- (intransitive) To feel overwhelming fear.
- 2019 January 25, Our house is on fire[2], World Economic Forum, Davos:
- I don't want you to be hopeful, I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day and then I want you to act.
- (transitive) To cause somebody to panic.
- (by extension, computing, intransitive) To crash.
- (by extension, computing, transitive) To cause the system to crash.
- 2009, Solaris System Engineers, Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials[3]:
- If your new driver has an error that panics the system when you load the driver, then the system will panic again when it tries to reboot after the panic.
to feel overwhelming fear
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
panic m
Related termsEdit
- panna f
Further readingEdit
- panic in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- panic in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
panic m (plural panics)
- (botany) Refers to several thorny shrubs; cockspur, panic, panicgrass
panic m (genitive singular panica, nominative plural panici, genitive plural panicov, declension pattern of chlap)
Declension of panic
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- panic in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk


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168 ministerial delegates from around the world took part in the Ministerial Conference, which, through a negotiated multi-stakeholder process, resulted in a "Ministerial Statement" and "the Istanbul Water Guide", a list of 140 recommendations for concrete action to be implemented to improve water security and water management at all levels. To prepare this list of recommendations, a synthesis of about 30 international declarations was prepared and extensively discussed with representatives of more than 100 governments, as well as with international organisations and major group representatives. 8 Ministerial Roundtables were also organized on this occasion in order to share experience and exchange knowledge.
The Ministerial Process documents which were endorsed during the Forum can be found in the CMS.
The Ministerial Conference was one of the main events of the Political Process. Targeted the Ministers in charge of water, it was also open to all relevant Ministers.
The objective of the Ministerial segment of the 5th World Water Forum was to prepare a Ministerial agenda for "Water Adaptation Management Strategies for Global Changes including Climate Change/ Variability", through a series of Preparatory Meetings (PrepComs).
The Ministerial Process Kick-off took place at a side event on 13 May 2008 at the 16th Session of the United Nations' Commission on Sustainable Development was titled, "Toward a Global Water Agenda: Preparing the Ministerial Process of the 5th World Water Forum".
The PrepCom series was kicked off on 11-12 September 2008 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris where the first documents of the Ministerial Process were reviewed by national governments and stakeholders. PrepCom II took place on 4-5 December 2008 in Geneva followed by PrepCom III in January 2009 in Rome. These meetings were crucial for the formulation of the 'Istanbul Water Guide', which was approved at the Ministerial Conference held during the 5th World Water Forum in Istanbul.
Inputs from both the Thematic and Regional Processes of the 5th World Water Forum contributed to the Ministerial Process.There was active participation in the Ministerial Process from both the Thematic and Regional Coordinators. Examples of some of the regional activities, which provided contributions to the Ministerial Process, in addition to those regional events organized by the World Water Council and the Turkish Government, were the Asia-Pacific Water Forum and Summit in Beppu, Japan, December 2007, the African Water Summit in Sharm-el-Skekh, Egypt in July 2008 the Water Forum of the Americas in Iguazu, Brazil and the Arab Water Forum, both in November 2008. All of these significant forums contributed to the PrepComs of the Ministerial Process.
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[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 79 (Wednesday, April 24, 2013)] [Notices] [Page 24225] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2013-09605] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Office of the Secretary Exercise of Authority Under the Immigration and Nationality Act AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DHS. ACTION: Notice of determination. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Authority: 8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(3)(B)(i). Following consultations with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General, I hereby conclude, as a matter of discretion in accordance with the authority granted to me by section 212(d)(3)(B)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(3)(B)(i), as amended, as well as the foreign policy and national security interests deemed relevant in these consultations, that section 212(a)(3)(B) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)(B), excluding subclause (i)(II), shall not apply with respect to an alien for any activity or association relating to the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Alianza Republicana Nacionalista, or ARENA), provided that the alien satisfies the relevant agency authority that the alien: (a) Is seeking a benefit or protection under the INA and has been determined to be otherwise eligible for the benefit or protection; (b) has undergone and passed all relevant background and security checks; (c) has fully disclosed, to the best of his or her knowledge, in all relevant applications and interviews with U.S. government representatives and agents, the nature and circumstances of activities or association falling within the scope of section 212(a)(3)(B) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)(B); (d) has not participated in, or knowingly provided material support to, terrorist activities that targeted noncombatant persons or U.S. interests; (e) has not engaged in terrorist activity in association with ARENA outside the context of civil war activities directed against military, intelligence, or related forces of the Salvadoran Government; (f) poses no danger to the safety and security of the United States; and (g) warrants an exemption from the relevant inadmissibility provision(s) in the totality of the circumstances. Implementation of this determination will be made by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), in consultation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), or by U.S. consular officers, as applicable, who shall ascertain, to their satisfaction, and in their discretion, that the particular applicant meets each of the criteria set forth above. This exercise of authority may be revoked as a matter of discretion and without notice at any time, with respect to any and all persons subject to it. Any determination made under this exercise of authority as set out above can inform but shall not control a decision regarding any subsequent benefit or protection application, unless such exercise of authority has been revoked. This exercise of authority shall not be construed to prejudice, in any way, the ability of the U.S. government to commence subsequent criminal or civil proceedings in accordance with U.S. law involving any beneficiary of this exercise of authority (or any other person). This exercise of authority creates no substantive or procedural right or benefit that is legally enforceable by any party against the United States or its agencies or officers or any other person. In accordance with section 212(d)(3)(B)(ii) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(3)(B)(ii), a report on the aliens to whom this exercise of authority is applied, on the basis of case-by-case decisions by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or by the U.S. Department of State, shall be provided to the specified congressional committees not later than 90 days after the end of the fiscal year. This determination is based on an assessment related to the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States as they apply to the particular persons described herein and shall not have any application with respect to other persons or to other provisions of U.S. law. Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security. [FR Doc. 2013-09605 Filed 4-23-13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4410-9M-P


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We now have groups for promoting Stack Overflow on some social networking sites. They are quasi-official.
Everyone's welcome to join any of them.
LinkedIn --- promote your Stack Overflow profile on your online CV (looking for administrators).
Facebook page, Facebook group --- find fellow Stack Overflow users.
Currently I'm the sole administrator for the LinkedIn group. I don't want to be; LinkedIn requires an administrator to approve all new members.
What does everyone reckon is best practice for these sort of groups? I was thinking that we could use similar rules to Stack Overflow — if you have over 4000 reputation points you're welcome as an administrator, that sort of thing.
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Cook the Book: Crab, Avocado & Potato Terrine
I have to thank Lourdes Castro, author of Latin Grilling for bringing this Crab, Avocado, and Potato Terrine (or Causa Limeña as it's known in its native Peru) into my life. With its layers of creamy, spicy mashed potatoes, sweet crab tossed with scallions, cilantro, and lime juice, and cool avocado, it marries three separately delicious elements into one mind-blowing terrine.
While crab and avocado fall into the "pretty much always fantastic" category, it's the spiced mashed potatoes that bring this layered salad together. Whipped with butter, half and half, as well as turmeric and cayenne, the potatoes shine bright gold and pack a bit of a punch, playing up the sweetness of the crab and richness of the avocado.
Reprinted with permission from Latin Grilling: Recipes to Share, from Argentine Asado to Yucatecan Barbecue and More by Lourdes Castro, copyright © 2011. Published by Ten Speed Press, a division of Random House, Inc.
- Yield:serves 8
- Active time: 45 minutes
- Total time:45 minutes plus 5 hours chilling time
- 1 1/2 pounds Yukon gold potatoes
- Salt
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup half-and-half
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
- 1/2 pound lump crabmeat
- 2 limes
- 2 green onions, roots trimmed, white and pale green parts thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup lightly packed cilantro leaves and tender stems, finely chopped
- 2 Hass avocados
Prepare the potatoes: Peel the potatoes and place them in a medium pot. Cover the potatoes with cold water, bring to a boil, add 1/2 teaspoon salt, and cook the potatoes until fork-tender, about 20 minutes.
Drain the potatoes and place in a mixing bowl. Add the butter, half-and-half, cayenne pepper, and turmeric and mash until the potatoes are smooth and creamy. Taste for seasoning and add salt if necessary. Set aside to cool at room temperature.
Prepare the crabmeat: Place the crabmeat in a bowl and pick through it with your fingers to remove any cartilage.
Add the juice of 1 lime, half of the green onion, and the cilantro and toss well. Taste for seasoning and add salt if necessary. Set aside.
Prepare the avocados: Cut the avocados in half and remove the seeds. Using a spoon, scoop out all of the flesh and place it in a bowl. Add the juice of the other lime and mash. Season with salt and set aside.
Assemble the terrine: Cut a piece of plastic wrap that is long enough to hang over the sides of a 9 by 5-inch loaf pan.
Place the avocado mixture in the loaf pan and pat it down to an even layer. Create the second layer by spooning the crab mixture over the avocado and spreading it out. Finish the terrine by layering the mashed potato over the crab and smoothing it out.
Fold the plastic wrap over the mashed potato, covering the terrine well. If the potato is not completely covered, place another sheet of plastic over the top of the loaf pan. Refrigerate for at least 5 hours.
Garnish and serve: Have a serving platter ready. Remove the terrine from the refrigerator and open the plastic wrap. Invert the platter over the loaf pan and flip both over so the pan is now upside down on top of the dish. Carefully lift off the loaf pan and peel off the plastic wrap.
Garnish by sprinkling the remaining green onion over the terrine. Gently slice the terrine crosswise, being careful to avoid crumbling the crab layer. I find it best to use a long serrated knife for this and slowly cut through the terrine using a sawing motion.
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