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Solution providers say two recent threat reports illustrate the unrelenting attacks against the infrastructure and back-end systems supporting banks and other financial industry businesses.
FireEye Chief Touts Apple Support, May Broaden Endpoint DetectionFireEye may extend more threat detection capabilities at the endpoint, according to FireEye CEO Dave DeWalt.
FireEye: SMBs Caught In Crosshairs As Attackers Get More SophisticatedRetail data breaches get the biggest headlines, but midmarket businesses are increasingly the target of cyberattackers and the damage could be catastrophic, according to FireEye and Mandiant executives.
10 'Beautiful' Celebs Whose Google Searches Can Turn UglySearching for these top male and female celebrities on Google, Yahoo and other search engines can result in some not so pretty and dangerous results.
Stand-alone IPS Still Viable Despite FireEye, Palo Alto Networks GearNext-generation firewalls that combine intrusion-prevention capabilities with other traditional firewall components and new breach detection platforms are not enough to kill the market for standalone intrusion prevention systems, say experts.
Kaspersky Lab Hires Sales Veteran To Bolster Enterprise PushMike Parise, who served as vice president of North American field sales at vulnerability and network penetration testing vendor Core Security, takes on the corporate sales role at Kaspersky Lab.
ThreatTrack Security Rolls Out VIPRE Business Premium 7.0ThreatTrack's antivirus adds cloud management for off-network endpoints, automated policy assignment and faster scanning to bolster security and user productivity.
Juniper Partner Program Head Departs For Juniper Security Spin-OffDoug Erickson, former VP of worldwide partner programs at Juniper Networks, has left the company to head up channels at Pulse Secure, a new mobile security company based on Juniper's recently spun-off Junos Pulse business.
JPMorgan Chase Breach Could Feed Phishing, But Fraud UnlikelyAttackers gained the email addresses and phone numbers of 7 million businesses and 76 million households, but the good news is that the most sensitive data was not exposed, according to security experts.
10 Ways Cloud Services Improve Security, Reduce ComplexitySmall and midsize businesses can offload the management and security of complex systems that are often exploited by attackers to gain access to critical corporate data, according to a security industry veteran. Here are 10 ways cloud adoption can bolster security.
Proficio Adds Channel Program To Help Stop All The 'Noise'Next-generation firewalls and other security appliances often generate an overwhelming number of alerts, according to Proficio, an Irvine, Calif.-based managed security service provider, which has added a channel program for resellers and networking consultants for its monitoring services.
Palo Alto Networks Appliance Vulnerable To Evasion, Was Tested Thoroughly, Says NSS LabsThe independent testing firm stands by its latest results and says a weakness found in Palo Alto Networks' Next Generation Firewalls enables attackers to easily avoid detection using common evasion techniques.
5 Security Vendors Detecting The Most Shellshock AttacksThese five network security appliances have purportedly had the most success in detecting Shellshock attacks targeting the GNU Bash command-line interpreter vulnerability.
MSSPs Tracking Shellshock Attacks, FireEye Uncover NAS Systems AssaultDell SecureWorks and other managed security service providers, in an update this week, said ongoing attacks consist mainly of probes for systems vulnerable to the Shellshock Bash command-line interpreter vulnerability. FireEye has uncovered attempts against NAS systems.
Shellshocked: Cisco, Juniper Among Vendors To Issue Emergency Security UpdatesAttackers are probing corporate networks to identify Linux and Unix systems that are vulnerable to the widely used Bash command-line interpreter.
Palo Alto Networks Earns Poor Results, Caution Rating In NGFW TestPalo Alto Networks received substandard performance marks against competitors in a recent next-generation firewall appliance bake-off conducted by NSS Labs.
Intel Poaches Cisco Security Vet To Lead Intel-McAfee TeamsChris Young, who was responsible for security strategy, engineering and product development at Cisco, was named vice president and general manager of Intel Security.
Palo Alto Poised To Set Traps For CompetitorsWith the launch of Traps, Palo Alto Networks looks to win multimillion dollar data center deals as an enterprise-wide security platform prevention company rather than just a next generation firewall provider.
Partners Hope Symantec CEO Brown Adds Security To His Storage RootsNewly named Symantec CEO Michael Brown's roots are in storage, but Symantec partners say the company's strong security portfolio deserves considerable attention in such a hot market.
Linux Bash Flaw Dangers Impact Apple, Said To Exceed Heartbleed ProportionsA critical Linux bug being dubbed Shellshock is contained in a variety of systems and networking gear, and being actively targeted in the wild, and solution providers are urging IT administrators to check systems and prepare to test and deploy patches.


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Obama gets no early takers on Syria among Washington state lawmakers
Headed into the biggest vote of the year on Capitol Hill, Washington state's congressional delegation is in no rush to line up behind President Barack Obama in his bid to use military force in Syria.
Medal of Honor recipient takes aim at mental war wounds
At first, Army Staff Sgt. Ty Michael Carter couldn't sleep. But then came the nightmares, cold sweats and uncontrollable shaking, all caused by the stress of watching eight fellow soldiers die on a battlefield in Afghanistan in 2009.
Marijuana industry eager to pay taxes – and cash in on deductions
As Congress wrestles with big budget cuts, one budding industry wants to help out the federal government with a novel message: Tax us, please. Marijuana businesses and their backers say legalizing the drug and taxing it like alcohol would add billions to the federal treasury. Some analysts dismiss...
As drug czar exits, does U.S. really need a new one?
U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske is leaving office unceremoniously, forgotten long before he was ever known to most Americans. But for those leading the push to legalize marijuana, he'll be remembered as the tough-talking former police chief from Seattle who never yielded on the question of...
U.S. gears up for huge, difficult land buyback for Indian tribes
After bungling the management of Indian lands for generations, the federal government wants to make amends by spending nearly $2 billion to buy 10 million acres of land for 150 tribes across the nation.
Cattle producers want to get rid of new meat labels
After surviving years of drought and watching the size of the U.S. cattle herd fall to its lowest level in more than 60 years, Texas cattleman Bob McCan would just as soon steer clear of the U.S. government's latest meat-labeling rules.
US-EU trade talks a wrap; discussion moves to Brussels
As they concluded their first round of trade talks in Washington on Friday, chief negotiators for the United States and the European Union said they'd made good progress this week and announced plans for a second round in Brussels the week of Oct. 7.
Consumer groups fret as first round of European trade talks nears end
Hoping to win the largest trade deal in history, the president's new U.S. trade representative offered negotiators some advice as they launched new trade talks with the European Union this week.
Pressure to 'Buy America' surging
To John Garamendi, the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge set to open in September is a symbol of failed U.S. trade policy: a $6.3 billion project that used 43,000 tons of Chinese steel and produced thousands of jobs overseas.
Forty-four years after Stonewall, 'it's a whole different world'
When the cops arrived to raid the Stonewall Inn on the night of June 27, 1969, David Velasco Bermudez headed for the exits, but he couldn't make his way through the crowded bar before getting hit in the neck by a policewoman swinging a billy club.

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BONIFAY — Co-owner of 4-L Diamond S Rodeo Co. Charlie Lawry was guest speaker at the Bonifay Kiwanis Club's June 5 meeting, giving a brief history of how 4-L Diamond S Rodeo Co. was formed and what it means for this year's upcoming Northwest Florida Championship Rodeo.
Lawry confirmed that the Northwest Florida Championship Rodeo held in Bonifay every October was the largest rodeo in this part of the country.
"Most rodeos in this area go for two days tops but to go for three days straight is rare for this area," he said. "This rodeo is also nationally known for its grass and Grand Entry. The only other grass arena is in Oregon."
Grass had its advantages and disadvantages, explained Lawry.
"A lot of riders and participants don't like grass because there's not as much grip as dirt, that's why barrel racing isn't done as much as it use to at the rodeo," he said. "Personally I like it because I find it more of a challenge and I like a good challenge."
He gave an update on the rodeo circuit, saying the rules had changed as far as how many rodeos count towards the national competition.
"It use to be that you could go to as many rodeos you wanted to and it would count towards the nationals," said Lawry. "Now they've limited it to 85 rodeos so the participants have been a little more selective of where they ride."
Lawry also gave a brief history of himself and how they came to the Northwest Florida Championship Rodeo.
"My family was in the cattle business and I learned to rope at that time," he said. "Eventually I got good enough to compete and since there was no rodeo around that area I had to leave home. I was blessed with a God-given talent to earn money competing in rodeos and I competed everywhere I could."
He said he graduated from college one week, got married the next and was enlisted in the army the next week.
"Due to failing the health exam I was back in the circuit," said Lawry. "I got my Pro Rodeo Cowboys Association card and was a finalist in the California rodeo in 1981. I went to all the biggest rodeos in America and never knew I would become a contractor one day."
He said it shouldn't have surprised him to be getting into the business since he was familiar with working with all of the biggest rodeos in America and how they were operated.
"I eventually bought a contract from someone selling their rodeo and before I knew it the rodeo expanded from five shows a year to 15 and 20 shows a year and have been doing it ever since," said Lawry. "Our bulls went to the national competition in Las Vegas and in 2007 we teamed up with Diamond S Rodeo Co. The '4-L' was added on and stood for our family of four Lawrys."
He said it was a good partnership because "they raised a lot of bulls and need a place to buck bulls and I needed bulls to buck."
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Insects (Class Insecta) are a major group of arthropods and the most diverse group of animals on the Earth, with over a million described species—more than half of all known living organisms—with estimates of undescribed species as high as 30 million, thus potentially representing over 90% of the differing life forms on the planet. Insects may be found in nearly all environments on the planet, although only a small number of species occur in the oceans, a habitat dominated by another arthropod group, the crustaceans.
There are approximately 2,000 praying mantis, 5,000 dragonfly species, 20,000 grasshopper, 82,000 true bug, 120,000 fly, 110,000 bee, wasp and ant, 170,000 butterfly and moth, and 360,000 beetle species described to date. Estimates of the total number of current species, including those not yet known to science, range from two million to fifty million, with newer studies favouring a lower figure of about six to ten million. Adult modern insects range in size from a 0.139 mm (0.00547 in) fairyfly (Dicopomorpha echmepterygis) to a 55.5 cm (21.9 in) long stick insect (Phobaeticus serratipes). The heaviest documented insect was a Giant Weta of 70 g (2½ oz), but other possible candidates include the Goliath beetles Goliathus goliatus, Goliathus regius and Cerambycid beetles such as Titanus giganteus, though no one is certain which is truly the heaviest.
The study of insects (from Latin insectus, meaning "cut into sections") is called entomology, from the Greek εντομον, also meaning "cut into sections".
The thoracic segments have one ganglion on each side, which are connected into a pair, one pair per segment. This arrangement is also seen in the abdomen but only in the first eight segments. Many species of insects have reduced numbers of ganglia due to fusion or reduction. Some cockroaches have just six ganglia in the abdomen, whereas the wasp Vespa crabro has only two in the thorax and three in the abdomen. And some, like the house fly Musca domestica, have all the body ganglia fused into a single large thoracic ganglion.
Until very recently, no one had ever documented the presence of nociceptors (the cells that detect and transmit sensations of pain) in insects (e.g., ), though recent findings of nociception in larval fruit flies challenges this and raises the possibility that some insects may be capable of feeling pain.
Most higher insects have two pairs of wings located on the second and third thoracic segments. Insects are the only invertebrates to have developed flight, and this has played an important part in their success. The winged insects, and their wingless relatives, make up the subclass Pterygota. Insect flight is not very well understood, relying heavily on turbulent aerodynamic effects. The primitive insect groups use muscles that act directly on the wing structure. The more advanced groups making up the Neoptera have foldable wings and their muscles act on the thorax wall and power the wings indirectly. These muscles are able to contract multiple times for each single nerve impulse, allowing the wings to beat faster than would ordinarily be possible (see insect flight).
Their outer skeleton, the cuticle, is made up of two layers; the epicuticle which is a thin and waxy water resistant outer layer and contains no chitin, and another layer under it called the procuticle. This is chitinous and much thicker than the epicuticle and has two layers, the outer being the exocuticle while the inner is the endocuticle. The tough and flexible endocuticle is built from numerous layers of fibrous chitin and proteins, criss-crossing each others in a sandwich pattern, while the exocuticle is rigid and sclerotized. The exocuticle is greatly reduced in many soft-bodied insects, especially the larval stages (e.g., caterpillars).
Most insects hatch from eggs, but some are ovoviviparous or viviparous, and all undergo a series of moults as they develop and grow in size. This manner of growth is necessitated by the inelastic exoskeleton. Moulting is a process by which the individual escapes the confines of the exoskeleton in order to increase in size, then grows a new and larger outer covering. In some insects, the young are called nymphs and are similar in form to the adult except that the wings are not developed until the adult stage. This is called incomplete metamorphosis and insects showing this are termed hemimetabolous. Holometabolous insects show complete metamorphosis, which distinguishes the Endopterygota and includes many of the most successful insect groups. In these species, an egg hatches to produce a larva, which is generally worm-like in form, and can be divided into five different forms; eruciform (caterpillar-like), scarabaeiform (grublike), campodeiform (elongated, flattened, and active), elateriform (wireworm-like) and vermiform (maggot-like). The larva grows and eventually becomes a pupa, a stage marked by reduced movement and often sealed within a cocoon. There are three types of pupae; obtect (the pupa is compact with the legs and other appendages enclosed), exarate (where the pupa has the legs and other appendages free and extended) and coarctate (where the pupa develops inside the larval skin). In the pupal stage, the insect undergoes considerable change in form to emerge as an adult, or imago. Butterflies are an example of an insect that undergoes complete metamorphosis. Some insects have even evolved hypermetamorphosis.
Some insects (parastic wasps) show polyembryony where a single fertilized egg can divide into many and in some cases thousands of separate embryos. Other developmental and reproductive variations include haplodiploidy, polymorphism, paedomorphosis (metathetely and prothetely), sexual dimorphism, parthenogenesis and more rarely hermaphroditism.
Many insects possess very sensitive and/or specialized organs of perception. Some insects such as bees can perceive ultraviolet wavelengths, or detect polarized light, while the antennae of male moths can detect the pheromones of female moths over distances of many kilometres. There is a pronounced tendency for there to be a trade-off between visual acuity and chemical or tactile acuity, such that most insects with well-developed eyes have reduced or simple antennae, and vice-versa. There are a variety of different mechanisms by which insects perceive sound, and it is by no means universal; the general pattern, however, is that if an insect can produce sound, then it can also hear sound, though the range of frequencies they can hear is often quite narrow (and may in fact be limited to only the frequency that they themselves produce). Some nocturnal moths can perceive the ultrasonic emissions of bats, a mechanism which helps them avoid predation. Certain predatory and parasitic insects can detect the characteristic sounds made by their prey/hosts. Bloodsucking insects have special sensory structures that can detect infrared emissions, and use them to home in on their hosts.
A few such insects also have a well-developed number sense, among the solitary wasps that provision with a single species of prey. The mother wasp lays her eggs in individual cells and provides each egg with a number of live caterpillars on which the young feed when hatched. Some species of wasp always provide five, others twelve, and others as high as twenty-four caterpillars per cell. The number of caterpillars is different among species, but it is always the same for each sex of larvae. The male solitary wasp in the genus Eumenes is smaller than the female, so the mother of one species supplies him with only five caterpillars; the larger female receives ten caterpillars in her cell. She can in other words distinguish between both the numbers five and ten in the caterpillars she is providing and which cell contains a male or a female.
Most insects except some species of cave dwelling crickets are able to perceive light and dark. Many species have acute vision capable of detecting minute movements. The eyes include simple eyes or ocelli as well as compound eyes of varying sizes. Many species are able to detect light in the infrared, ultraviolet as well as the visible light wavelengths. Colour vision has been demonstrated in many species and phylogenetic analysis suggests that the basic bauplan of UV-green-blue trichromacy existed from at least the Devonian period.
Very low sounds are also produced in various species of Neuroptera, Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), Coleoptera and Hymenoptera produced by the mechanical actions of movement often aided by special microscopic stridulatory structures.
Most sound-making insects also have tympanal organs that can perceive airborne sounds. Most insects are also able to sense vibrations transmitted by the substrate. Communication using substrate-borne vibrational signals is more widespread among insects because of the size constraints in producing air-borne sounds. Insects cannot effectively produce low-frequency sounds, and high-frequency sounds tend to disperse more in a dense environment (such as foliage), so insects living in such environments communicate primarily using substrate-borne vibrations. The mechanisms of production of vibrational signals are just as diverse as those for producing sound in insects.
Some species use vibrations for communicating within members of the same species, such as to attract mates as in the songs of the shield bug Nezara viridula while it can also be used to communicate between entirely different species, such as between ants and myrmecophilous lycaenid caterpillars.
The Madagascar hissing cockroach has the ability to press air through the spiracles to make a hissing noise, and the Death's-head Hawkmoth makes a squeaking noise by forcing air out of their pharynx.
Social insects, such as the termites, ants and many bees and wasps, are the most familiar species of eusocial animal. They live together in large well-organized colonies that may be so tightly integrated and genetically similar that the colonies of some species are sometimes considered superorganisms. It is sometimes argued that the various species of honey bee are the only invertebrates (and indeed one of the few non-human groups) to have evolved a system of abstract symbolic communication (i.e., where a behaviour is used to represent and convey specific information about something in the environment), called the "dance language" - the angle at which a bee dances represents a direction relative to the sun, and the length of the dance represents the distance to be flown.
Only those insects which live in nests or colonies demonstrate any true capacity for fine-scale spatial orientation or "homing" - this can be quite sophisticated, however, and allow an insect to return unerringly to a single hole a few millimetres in diameter among a mass of thousands of apparently identical holes all clustered together, after a trip of up to several kilometres' distance, and (in cases where an insect hibernates) as long as a year after last viewing the area (a phenomenon known as philopatry). A few insects migrate, but this is a larger-scale form of navigation, and often involves only large, general regions (e.g., the overwintering areas of the Monarch butterfly).
Insect flight has been a topic of great interest in aerodynamics due partly to the inability of steady-state theories to explain the lift generated by the tiny wings of insects.
In addition to powered flight, many of the smaller insects are also dispersed by winds. These include the aphids which are often transported long distances by low-level jet streams.
The purest form of the tripedal gait is seen in insects moving at speed. However, this type of locomotion is not rigid and insects can adapt a variety of gaits; for example, when moving slowly, turning, or avoiding obstacles, four or more feet may be touching the ground. Insects can also adapt their gait to cope with the loss of one or more limbs.
Cockroaches are amongst the fastest insect runners and at full speed actually adopt a bipedal run to reach a high velocity in proportion to their body size. As Cockroaches move extremely rapidly, they need recording at several hundred frames per second to reveal their gait. More sedate locomotion is also studied by scientists in stick insects Phasmatodea.
A few insects have evolved to walk on the surface of the water, especially the bugs of the family, Gerridae, also known as water striders. A few species of ocean-skaters in the genus Halobates even live on the surface of open oceans, a habitat that has few insect species.
Insect walking is of particular interest as an alternative form of locomotion to the use of wheels for robots (Robot locomotion).
A large number of insects live either parts or the whole of their lives underwater. In many of the more primitive orders the immature stages are aquatic while some other groups have aquatic adults as well.
Many of these species have adaptations to help in locomotion under water. The water beetles and water bugs have legs adapted into paddle like structures. Dragonfly naiads, use jet propulsion, forcibly expelling water out of the rectal chamber.
Some species like the water striders are capable of walking on the surface of water. They can do this because their claws are not at the tips of the legs as in most insects, but recessed in a special groove further up the leg; this prevents the claws from piercing the water's surface film. Other insects such as the Rove beetle Stenus are known to emit salivary secretions that reduce surface tension making it possible for them to move on the surface of water by Marangoni propulsion (also known by the German term Entspannungsschwimmen).
Species that are submerged also have adaptations to aid in respiration. Many larval forms have gills that can extract oxygen dissolved in water, while others need to rise to the water surface to replenish air supplies which may be held or trapped in special structures.
Other terrestrial arthropods, such as centipedes, millipedes, scorpions and spiders, are sometimes confused with insects since their body plans can appear similar, sharing (as do all arthropods) a jointed exoskeleton. However upon closer examination their features differ significantly; most noticeably they do not have the six legs characteristic of adult insects.
The higher level phylogeny of the arthropods continues to be a matter of debate and research.
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The oldest definitive insect fossil is the Devonian Rhyniognatha hirsti, from the 396 million year old Rhynie chert. This species already possessed dicondylic mandibles, a feature associated with winged insects, suggesting that wings may already have evolved at this time. Thus, the first insects probably appeared earlier, in the Silurian period.
The origins of insect flight remain obscure, since the earliest winged insects currently known appear to have been capable fliers. Some extinct insects had an additional pair of winglets attaching to the first segment of the thorax, for a total of three pairs. So far, there is nothing that suggests that the insects were a particularly successful group of animals before they got their wings.
Late Carboniferous and Early Permian insect orders include both several current very long-lived groups and a number of Paleozoic forms. During this era, some giant dragonfly-like forms reached wingspans of 55 to 70 cm, (22-28 in) making them far larger than any living insect. This gigantism may have been due to higher atmospheric oxygen levels that allowed increased respiratory efficiency relative to today. The lack of flying vertebrates could have been another factor.
Most extant orders of insects developed during the Permian era that began around 270 million years ago. Many of the early groups became extinct during the Permian-Triassic extinction event, the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth, around 252 million years ago.
The remarkably successful Hymenopterans appeared in the Cretaceous but achieved their diversity more recently, in the Cenozoic. A number of highly-successful insect groups evolved in conjunction with flowering plants, a powerful illustration of co-evolution.
Many modern insect genera developed during the Cenozoic; insects from this period on are often found preserved in amber, often in perfect condition. Such specimens are easily compared with modern species. The study of fossilized insects is called paleoentomology.
As many of the traditional morphology-based taxa have been shown to be paraphyletic, it is best to avoid using terms such as subclass, superorder and infraorder and instead focus on monophyletic groupings. The following list represents the best supported monophyletic groupings for the Insecta. }} }} }} }} Simplified Cladogram of insect groups and very simplified. Note that Apterygota, Palaeoptera and Exopterygota are possibly paraphyletic groups. † signifies an extinct taxon.
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Many insects are considered pests by humans. Insects commonly regarded as pests include those that are parasitic (mosquitoes, lice, bed bugs), transmit diseases (mosquitoes, flies), damage structures (termites), or destroy agricultural goods (locusts, weevils). Many entomologists are involved in various forms of pest control, often using insecticides, but more and more relying on methods of biocontrol.
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Insects also produce useful substances such as honey, wax, lacquer and silk. Honey bees have been cultured by humans for thousands of years for honey, although contracting for crop pollination is becoming more significant for beekeepers. The silkworm has greatly affected human history, as silk-driven trade established relationships between China and the rest of the world. Fly larvae (maggots) were formerly used to treat wounds to prevent or stop gangrene, as they would only consume dead flesh. This treatment is finding modern usage in some hospitals. Adult insects such as crickets, and insect larvae of various kinds are also commonly used as fishing bait.
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Many insects, especially beetles, are scavengers, feeding on dead animals and fallen trees, recycling the biological materials into forms found useful by other organisms, and insects are responsible for much of the process by which topsoil is created. The ancient Egyptian religion adored dung beetles and represented them as beetle-shaped amulets, or scarabs.
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To ensure that construction activities continue with little disruption, and to provide a forum for open dialogue with the surrounding community, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), with participation of the National Park Service and City of Alexandria, is creating a Community Liaison Information Group on Jones Point Park Construction. The group will be comprised of a representative from resident groups that may be most impacted by ongoing work at Jones Point Park.
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More information on NXT 2.0
This is the parts list inventory of the new set. Notice that the set also includes 4 wheels with tyres, even though the latter parts are not used in any of the set models.
The box includes more smaller beams than the old set, and the amount of length-15 beams is reduced to 2. However, you get a lot of other useful beams in return. Apart from new parts, some of the older parts have a different color.
Here's a more detailed picture of the back side of the box. Two new features of the software are shown here: Remote control (USB or BlueTooth) and the possibility to create custom sounds and image files for the NXT.
The box also promises 10 models with downloadable building instructions from mindstorms.com upon the set's release. Two of the models are shown here. One of them is a six legged Mantis, and the other one is a cool transforming robot.
This image is not very new, but it shows the color sensor functionality, with three separate functions:
- It can be used in Color Sensor Mode. Using the standard software, it can detect six color: black, white, red, green, blue and yellow
- It can be used in Lamp mode: It is possible to control the colored LED on the sensor, by setting it to either green, red or blue. In this mode, the light intensity would be just around the same brightness of the old Light Sensor.
- It can be used in Light Sensor Mode. In this mode, it acts just like the old light sensor: it returns a value from 0-100 where 0 is darkest, and 100 is brightest. In this mode, it is also possible to pick a desired LED color (again, red, blue or green).
(Information from the Junior Mindstorms Developer Program, JMDP)
13 comments:
- megamindstorm101 said...
jmdp is awsome :P and finnaly some clear pictures the other pictures i rememebr seening wernt so clear. Also i finnaly got an answer to my question that the light sensor does indeed work as a regular light sensor :) I cant wait though only 2 15u beams are kinda annoying good thing i have some already from i other lego sets :)
- Jun 20, 2009, 8:52:00 AM
- Tim said...
I'm assuming that, by rapidly swapping between the red, blue, and green LEDs on the color sensor, you can create a very limited "pixel" for either a large display or just lighting up a single object.
I have used this idea to generate grayscale images on the NXT screen previously, and all I had to do was make 101 ric files (0-100%) containing the same image at different contrast levels. (Thanks to NXTRICEdit v1.0, an image, and the contrast slider.) Thanks to NXTRICEdit v2.0, I can compress this to one ric file with a single parameter.
- Jun 21, 2009, 10:01:00 AM
- GJ said...
so...no light sensor eh?
- Jun 22, 2009, 12:04:00 AM
- LEGOmom said...
I hope someone does a parts inventory like there is for the older kit. Please make a 2.0 conversion kit for Jim's new Nxt2.0 book! Pretty please!
- Jun 22, 2009, 6:15:00 AM
- pbr said...
Question for you:
Does the NXT 2.0 have a newer version of the NXT-G software? Or, is it the same as in the original NXT?
Enquiring minds want to know!
- Jun 22, 2009, 2:30:00 PM
- Laurens Valk said...
I've built a lot of models with the kit, and so far I have not had much problems with the lack of 15L beams. You get enough 13L beams to build something.
There aren't so much gears in the set, so one will have to collect these from other sets, or find creative solutions to avoid the use or gears.
In Color Sensor mode, the led indeed changes very rapidly, but in this mode, the LED shines at low intensity, so you can hardly see light coming from the sensor. For a pixel, this might be a problem. In the standard software it is not possible to change the frequenty of the change and such things.
You can indeed change the LED color in Lamp and Light Sensor mode, and the LED is very bright in this situation also. However, in the current firmware (1.28) the change is relatively slow. So creating a mixed color is not possible here either.
When used in Light Sensor Mode, it works just like the old Light Sensor, and you can even pick your LED color.
I'm quite sure part list inventories will soon show up. I'm also writing a NXT 2.0 book for kids, so I'll probably be creating a inventory list some time.
If such parts pack would be created, it would be nice to make it work for all NXT2.0 books. LEGO (retail) won't be releasing such a kit. It would be the question what the set should contain. A color sensor, an extra touch sensor and the software might make it an expensive pack.
Yes, there is a NXT-G 2.0. Note that this is very different from the earlier released NXT-G 2.0 education version.
It doesn't have datalog support, but it does have some additions to the 1.0 software, such as the ones mentioned on the picture of the box. Also, it now deals with floating point values instead of integers.
Let me know if I missed any questions!
- Jun 23, 2009, 12:03:00 AM
- GJ said...
Ok, I got it, thanks
- Jun 23, 2009, 4:50:00 AM
- Tim said...
I'm pretty sure you failed to understand my question. I mean to, in the code, tell the color sensor to rapidly change between red light active, blue light active, green light active, and ambient light. As a test using the light sensor from 1.0, try something like this (in pseudo code, "." means indent):
..LoopA Forever;
....LoopB (11); //intensity (0-10)
......power = #LoopsDoneB;
......LoopC (10); //PWM control
........If (power => #LoopsDoneC);
This is pretty much what I did with the NXT display to achieve grayscale. I can't post NXT-G code here, so I can't send the original code.
- Jun 23, 2009, 5:35:00 AM
- Laurens Valk said...
That is true, but I meant to say that changing the LED color takes much time, under the current firmware. So, I'm not sure if your would work.
- Jun 23, 2009, 6:43:00 AM
- Tim said...
If anyone here likes strange time-lapse photography and the NXT, and is thinking about getting the color sensor, good luck with my idea. Creating a full HD television and recording a full 30 minute show should take a few weeks, and work pretty well as a strange, silent film.
I need to start coming up with these near-impossible projects. But they are fun...
- Jun 23, 2009, 9:37:00 AM
- Tim said...
-"Stop". I mean "stop", not "start".
- Jun 23, 2009, 9:39:00 AM
- Pe-ads said...
This looks very cool. The lack of cogs/gears is annoying, but I already have plenty. I'm really looking forward to the new colour sensor and the new software. Floating-point digits makes it so much better. Perhaps 3.0 will have Pi as well! :-P
- Jun 24, 2009, 3:10:00 AM
- Mark said...
I have recently acquired (for free from a friend) the old Mindstorms system 2.0.
Will the brick, cogs etc work witht the NTX 2.0?
I am going to buy one anyway - I am just glad I did not buy the NTX pre 2.0 a few weeks ago.
I did loads of googling and came to the conclusion LEGO were not doing an upgrade - how wrong I was !!!
- Jul 8, 2009, 5:27:00 PM


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I never liked them but back in 1998-2000 when I worked as a specialist at the Giessen Germany PX for our veterans(which is long gone by now) we sold systems by Intel, AMD and Cyrix.
Intel.. I liked alot
AMD.. I liked alot ( i enjoy the proverbial underdog)
Cyrix.. Yawn....
But just out of curiosity, whatever happened to them? Did they die a horrible death? I really don't know... because for a long time I got away from the tech savvy world for about 4-5 years afterward
Why do I say Nostalgia? I didn't like them and I always steered people away from Cyrix processors because they seemed so inferior, slower and everyone whoever purchased one of those systems had nothing but issues and always returned them for their money back. Talk about a company being a waste of time.


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The dollar (often represented by the dollar sign: "$") is the name of the official currency in several countries, dependencies and other world regions. All nations that have the dollar as their currency have their notes and coins in circulation containing various metals and substances.
The German name Thaler came from the Bohemian coin minted from the silver from a rich mine at Joachimsthal - Jáchymov (St. Joachim's Valley) in Bohemia north of Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad). Not long after issuance, these coins gained the name Joachimsthalers. From there, coins gained the name "thaler" regardless of the issuing authority. The name is historically related to the tolar, in Germany Reichsthaler, Slovenia (Slovenian tolar) and Bohemia, the daalder in the Netherlands and daler in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. "Guildiner" can be traced to 1486 when Archduke Sigismund of Tyrol, a small state north of Venice, issued a dollar-sized coin which was referred to as a "guildiner". Silver supplies were small which limited coinage.
The Dutch lion dollar circulated throughout the Middle East and was imitated in several German and Italian cities. It was also popular in the Dutch East Indies as well as in the Dutch New Netherlands Colony (New York). The lion dollar also has circulated throughout the English colonies during the 17th and early 18th centuries. Examples circulating in the colonies were usually fairly well worn so that the design was not fully distinguishable, thus they were sometimes referred to as "dog dollars. This Dutch currency made its way to the east coast due to the increased trading by colonial ships with other nations. By the mid-1700s, it was replaced by the Spanish 8 reales.
The name "Spanish dollar" was used for a Spanish coin, the "real de a ocho" and later peso, worth eight reals (hence the nickname "pieces of eight"), which was widely circulated during the 18th century in the Spanish colonies in the New World and in Spanish territories in Asia, namely in the Philippines.The use of the Spanish dollar and the Maria Theresa thaler as legal tender for the early United States and its fractions were the mainstay of commerce. They are the reasons for the name of the nation's currency. By the American Revolution in 1775, these Spanish coins became even more important. They backed paper money authorized by the individual colonies and the Continental Congress. However, the word dollar was in use in the English language as slang or mis-pronunciation for the thaler for about 200 years before the American Revolution, with many quotes in the plays of Shakespeare referring to dollars as money. Spanish dollars were in circulation in the Thirteen Colonies that became the United States, and were legal tender in Virginia.
Coins known as dollars were also in use in Scotland during the 17th century, and there is a claim that the use of the English word, and perhaps even the use of the coin, began at the University of St Andrews. This explains the sum of 'Ten thousand dollars' mentioned in Macbeth (Act I, Scene II), although the real Macbeth upon whom the play was based lived in the 11th century, making the reference anachronistic; however this is not rare in Shakespeare's work.
In the early 19th century, a British five-shilling piece, or crown, was sometimes called a dollar, probably because its appearance was similar to the Spanish dollar. This expression appeared again in the 1940s, when U.S. troops came to the UK during World War II. At the time a U.S. dollar was worth about 5s., so some of the U.S. soldiers started calling it a dollar. Consequently, they called the half crown "half a dollar", and the expression caught on among some locals and could be heard into the 1960s.
In the early days of the United States, the term "Dollar" was commonly known as a coin minted by Spain called the Spanish Milled Dollar. These coins were the standard money then in use in the country. On April 2, 1792 Alexander Hamilton, then the Secretary of the Treasury, made a report to Congress that were the result of his task to scientifically determine the amount of silver in the Spanish Milled Dollar coins that were then in current use by the people. As a result of this report, the Dollar was defined (See the Act of April 2, A.D. 1792 of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Section 9) as a unit of measure of 371 4/16th grains of pure silver or 416 grains of standard silver. (Standard silver being defined as 1,485 parts fine silver to 179 parts alloy; See Section 13 of the Act.). Therefore paper is not the dollar, instead, it is 'worth', not 'is', 1 dollar (U.S Silver certificate.) In section 20 of the Act, it is specified that the "money of account" of the United States shall be expressed in those same "dollars" or parts thereof. All of the minor coins were also defined in terms of percentages of the primary coin the dollar such that a half dollar contained 1/2 as much silver as a dollar, quarter dollars, 1/4th etc. In an act passed on January 18, 1837 the alloy was changed to 10% thus having the effect of containing the same amount of silver but being reduced in weight to 412 1/4 grains of standard silver which was changed to 90% pure and 10% alloy. On February 21, 1853 the amount of silver in the fractional coins was reduced so that it was no longer possible to combine the fractional coins to come up with the same amount of silver that was in the dollar. Various acts have been passed over the years that affected the amount and type of metal in the coins minted by the United States such that today, there is no legal definition of the term "Dollar" to be found in any Statute of the United States. [Sources for this paragraph include the United States Statutes at Large, A Guide Book of United States Coins by R.S. Yeoman, MONEY - Ye shall have honest weights and measures by James E. Ewart.]
Today the closest definition to a dollar comes from the United States code Title 31, Section 5116, paragraph b, subsection 2, "The Secretary [of the Treasury] shall sell silver under conditions the Secretary considers appropriate for at least $1.292929292 a fine troy ounce." However Federal Reserve banks are only prejudiced to deliver tax credits instead of money. The silver content of U.S. coinage was mostly removed in 1965 and the dollar essentially became a baseless free-floating fiat currency; though the U.S. Mint continues to make silver $1 bullion coins at this weight.
Continued Chinese demand for silver led several countries, notably the United Kingdom, United States, and Japan to mint trade dollars in the 19th and early 20th centuries, often of slightly different weights to their domestic coinage. Silver dollars reaching China (whether Spanish, Trade, or other) were often stamped with Chinese characters known as "chop marks" which indicated that that particular coin had been assayed by a well-known merchant and determined genuine.
The name has also been applied to the international dollar, a hypothetical unit of currency that has the same purchasing power that the U.S. dollar has in the United States at a given point in time.
Various science fiction writers used "Dollar" as the name of currencies in the future worlds they depicted (see List of fictional currencies#Names adapted from real-world currencies).


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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
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Time Perspective: Prospective
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|The Stanford HIV Aging Cohort (SHAC)
- neurocognitive testing [ Time Frame: 1 year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Controlled oral word association test-FAS, Paced auditory serial addition task, trail making a and b, REY auditory verbal learning test, grooved peg board, timed gait
- cardiovascular testing [ Time Frame: 1 yr ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]ankle-brachial index
Biospecimen Retention: Samples Without DNA
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With advances in antiretroviral therapy, the life expectancy of HIV-infected individuals continues to improve with older individuals representing a rapidly growing proportion of those infected. However, despite improved life expectancy, substantial residual morbidity remains in treated HIV including increased rates of neurocognitive dysfunction, frailty, and cardiovascular disease. As these conditions also increase with normal aging, HIV is often thought to be a risk factor for "early" or "accelerated" aging. Prior studies have generally focused on HIV-specific factors and risk for neurocognitive dysfunction, frailty, and cardiovascular disease, while few have examined extensively risk factors found to be significant for these conditions in the general population.
The investigators hypothesize that the effects of age and HIV will be synergistic on the rates of non-AIDS morbidity. While the correlates and risk factors for non-AIDS morbidity in younger individuals may largely be related to HIV, in older individuals with sustained virologic control, traditional risk factors for neurocognitive disease, frailty, and cardiovascular disease will contribute more significantly to disease than HIV-specific risk factors. Our primary objectives are to:
- Define the prevalence and incidence of neurocognitive dysfunction, frailty, and cardiovascular disease in a well-defined cohort of aging virologically suppressed HIV-infected individuals.
- Identify correlates and risk factors for prevalent and incident neurocognitive dysfunction, frailty, and cardiovascular disease.
- Compare and contrast the identified correlates and risk factors for the co-morbidities of interest in older (>50 years old) and younger HIV-infected individuals.
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300 HIV-infected participants whose virus is controlled on antiretroviral medications from the Stanford Positive Care Clinic. Five (150) patients over 50 years old and five (150) patients less than 50 years old
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects must have an HIV RNA level below the limit of quantification (e.g., <75 copies, <50 copies, or <48 copies/mL, depending on the assay used) for at least 6 months excluding "blips" (e.g., a single measurement between 48-200 copies/mL preceded and followed by measurements below the limit of quantification) while on antiretroviral therapy.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Completed treatment for any acute systemic infection (other than HIV-1) less than four weeks before study entry.
- Any active brain infection (except for HIV-1), brain neoplasm, or space-occupying brain lesion.
- Receipt of immunomodulating medication (e.g., corticosteroids, immunoglobulin, etc.) within four weeks of study entry.
- Any active psychiatric illness including schizophrenia, severe depression, or severe bipolar affective disorder that, in the opinion of the investigator, could confound the analysis of the neuropsychological test results.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01401348
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|Principal Investigator: Philip Grant
|Principal Investigator: Andrew R Zolopa
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|Philip Grant
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|July 19, 2011
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|July 22, 2011
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Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
HIV Infections
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Lentivirus Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Slow Virus Diseases
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Softball vs. SUNY Cobleskill - NEAC Championship Tournament At Reading, Pa
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Result: 2-1 W
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