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In Libya, the Cellphone as Weapon
August 25, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Nick Carey
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) – When Muammar Gaddafi's government shut off the cellphone network in Misrata in the early days of Libya's uprising, it wanted to stop rebel forces communicating with each other. But the power of a modern phone goes beyond its network.
Both rebels and government soldiers have used their phones to take pictures and videos of the conflict, a digital record of fighting from both sides. With the rebels now in Tripoli, the capital, and Gaddafi's whereabouts unknown, those gigabytes of potential evidence may play a role in any war crimes cases.
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo made an appeal in February for "footage and images to confirm the alleged crimes", after the United Nations Security Council referred the Libyan uprising to the court. A court filing applying for arrest warrants listed video evidence, mainly from media, but also from unspecified sources, in support of its claim.
In the Mediterranean city of Misrata, in particular, a group of rebel-allied lawyers has worked to gather evidence of what it calls war crimes committed by Gaddafi forces.
"In the beginning when there were snipers we had to move around carefully," said Omar Abulifa, a former prosecutor and head of the Misrata-based Human Rights Activists Association. "It was hard to get the evidence, but we did what we could."
As the rebels gained control of more of the city in April and May, the association set up a system to gather evidence after every incident, especially the continued bombardment of the city with Grad rockets by Gaddafi loyalists, which killed and injured many civilians. The footage they gathered includes videos taken from the cellphones of rebel fighters and from those of government troops captured or killed during the fighting. Other video and photographs came from citizens of the town.
Some of that film can be used as evidence, Abulifa says. "But not all of it because to be used as evidence it has to be from a trusted source and it has to be clear what is happening."
Around 150 gigabytes of video gathered by the city's media committee, which was set up after the uprising, has been provided to the association. A member of the committee gave a Reuters reporter who was in Misrata in July a large volume of that material.
"Everyone has stuff like this," said Ali, 21, an off-duty rebel fighter, as he showed a Reuters reporter videos on his touch-screen phone, including one of government tanks entering Misrata and one showing a man he says was an unarmed doctor who had been shot by Gaddafi troops and bled to death in the street.
Hair slicked back, and impeccably turned out in western jeans, shirt and shoes, Ali speaks in the weary tone of a young man explaining modern technology to someone older.
"Just ask anyone and they'll show you," he said.
Grilled Fish
Technology has been vital to Misrata's uprising since the beginning.
When his closest childhood friend invited him to a dinner in a fisherman's hut on the beach last December, Ayman Al Sahli was puzzled. As the 31-year-old lawyer and six other men tucked into grilled fish, their friend, Mohammed Al Madani, explained why he had called the group together.
The accountant brought out a photograph of the old Libyan flag, which predates Muammar Gaddafi's seizure of power in a 1969 coup. The red-black-and-green flag with its white crescent moon and star is now ubiquitous in the rebel-held city and other parts of Libya. But in December it was forbidden so a small, easily hidden photograph had to do.
Al Madani then used his mobile phone to play Libya's old national anthem. The song dates back to the country's independence in 1951 and was banned after Gaddafi seized power. None of the men present had ever heard it before.
"We spent the rest of the evening talking about the unrest in Tunisia," al Sahli says, "and about what Libya would be like without Gaddafi."
In the six months since they rose against Gaddafi, the 500,000 or so residents of Libya's third largest city have remained close to one of the fiercest frontlines of the Arab Spring. The rebels seized Misrata in May after a bloody, three-month long battle against well-armed government militia and in the past few weeks forced the government troops west toward Tripoli.
With the rebels on the verge of victory, much is likely to be made of the NATO bombing raids, which have hammered Gaddafi's forces since March, and the role of Qatar, which has financed the rebels. But just as important have been two things on show that night in the Misrata beach hut: a low-tech, make-do resourcefulness and mobile phones.
Facebook "Event"
A few days before Misrata's first street protest on February 17, Mohammed Agila, 32, a bespectacled bank employee, took his heavily pregnant wife and two children to her parents' house. He withdrew all the money from his bank account and gave it to his father-in-law.
"I did not know exactly what would happen when we went out in the street," said Agila, one of 70 or so participants in that initial demonstration. "But I knew I could be arrested."
In the preceding months, Agila and Jamal Sibai, who also took part in the first protest, joined small group meetings like the one at the fisherman's hut.
"People met in groups of 10, 11, 12 and talked about going into the streets to demonstrate," said Sibai, 25, a slender, bearded art student and now a writer for a new newspaper called Free Libya. "We talked about freedom and the need for a constitution. We talked about how we wanted a president who could only serve for four or eight years and then, 'Thank you, goodbye.'
"We didn't talk about fighting," he added. "We just wanted the things a normal country should have."
In January, two Facebook pages — "Amal Libya" or Hope Libya, and another calling for a "day of anger" on February 17 — helped protesters like Sibai and Agila realize they were not alone.
"Before the Facebook pages, we did not know exactly when or where we should go out into the streets," Agila said. "But they told us when and where to do it. We didn't create the revolution in Misrata," added Agila, now a radio announcer as well as working at a bank. "Everyone here wanted to do what we did. We just happened to do it first."
By this time Tunisia's Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak had already been toppled and protests were underway in Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and other countries. Protests began in Benghazi on February 15, because of fears Gaddafi was preparing to send in his militia.
When protesters, most of them strangers to each other, showed up in the parking lot of Misrata's technological college on February 17, they noticed cars carrying Gaddafi's secret police and militia waiting for them. All the protesters were arrested.
"I was afraid," Sibai said. "But I knew I had to do this anyway."
Taking It In Turns
The first protests sparked off a series of increasingly large demonstrations in the city, Libya's commercial and industrial heart some 200 km (124 miles) east of Tripoli. Government forces opened fire on protesters on February 19. Rebels armed with Molotov cocktails, hunting rifles and crude, home-made blades, took control of the city within a few days, but barely.
On March 17, the same day a United Nations resolution ushered in a NATO bombing campaign, Gaddafi forces began an artillery bombardment. Within a few days government tanks backed by snipers firing from tall buildings on Tripoli Street, the city's main thoroughfare, had forced the rebels to hole up in the city's seaport.
"We had no weapons, so we fought with what we could find," says Abu Youssef, 55, a former caterer who recalls his amazement when he saw a teenager take out a tank in the early days of the uprising with just a Molotov cocktail.
On the ground, men like Youssef, 37, a former truck driver on the city's southern front, joined small groups of men. The group Youssef joined had just one gun between them, a common situation in the opening days of the war before the city's entrepreneurs, and mass fundraising efforts, brought weapons and ammunition.
Some weapons came from the temporary rebel capital of Benghazi in the east, but the fact that most were bought by locals is both a source of pride and a bone of contention with Benghazi.
"We would take it in turns to fire the gun," Youssef says while taking shade from the fierce late July sun with his comrades. "The rest of us would help the man with the gun."
Another fighter called Alim, 21, said rocket-propelled grenade launchers, a much-needed weapon against Gaddafi's more heavily armed forces, were in particularly short supply. When a group without a launcher needed one for an attack they would ask other groups in the neighborhood to borrow theirs.
"Once we fired it, we returned it as promised," Alim said as he sped toward the front line last month in a Chinese-made pickup, one of several thousand commandeered from the city's port during the uprising.
Imported by the government a few years ago to sell to Libyans, the Toyota-lookalikes were rejected by consumers as too shoddy and sat idle at the port. Now they are a hot commodity. The trucks have to be hotwired to start, because no one knows where the keys are, and have a notoriously loose tailgate that pops open at inopportune moments.
"I'd rather have a Toyota," Alim says, as he hotwires the truck. "Or any other half-decent truck. But I'll make do with this."
Dog Fight
The citizens of Misrata made do with whatever came to hand in a battle where, perhaps surprisingly, tanks were not the biggest threat the rebel fighters faced. "In the city, we could use the houses and buildings to get close to tanks," says Ali, 29, a dentist on the western front line. "We found out that we could take out a tank at 80 meters."
Far worse were the snipers.
On a tour around the damaged University of Misrata's Faculty of Medical Technology, medical management lecturer Mahmoud Attaweil pointed to the holes knocked by government snipers in the roof of a five-storey building. Holes along the side of the building were caused by rebels trying to dislodge the snipers, said Attaweil.
"You can't get a sniper out of a building with small arms," he said. "The only way to persuade him to leave is to make him believe you will bring the whole building down if you have to."
One group of rebel fighters attached flashlights to the heads of dogs at night then released them near buildings where they suspected a sniper was hiding. The sniper would open fire, almost invariably missing the fast-moving target presented by the running dog. Once the sniper had given away his position, the rebels would open fire with rocket-propelled grenades.
Gigabytes of Evidence
Mobile phones also became a weapon.
Much of the footage of fighting and its aftermath held by the rebels is too graphic for Reuters to show.
In one sequence, people run toward a car and open the door. The vehicle's driver slumps out of the door, shot through the head by a sniper, his brains spilling out of a hole in his forehead. Many others, from the city's hospitals and clinics — a trusted source of information — show injured children. One clip shows a bombed incubator room for infants where nurses pull glass out of the bloodied bodies of crying babies.
Another video, purportedly taken from the phone of a captured government soldier, shows what appear to be uniformed Gaddafi loyalists in the back of a truck trying to force a group of men mainly in civilian clothes to "Say Muammar!" and "Say something!". Two of the civilians are assaulted — the first, a bearded man, is repeatedly slapped in the face, and pushed against the side of the truck by a man in a black coat. The second is slapped in the face. The men then all begin to chant "Long Live Muammar's lions!"
The Misrata group says it has already started work on 150 war crimes cases against the Gaddafi regime, and Abulifa says it will add many more.
Gaddafi's government has denied anything beyond firing at the "armed gangs" and mercenaries, and in June angrily rejected charges of crimes against humanity filed by the International Criminal Court against the Libyan leader, his son Saif al-Islam and intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi.
While Abulifa says he welcomes the ICC's war crimes charges, if the country's longtime ruler is captured he says he wants him to stand trial in Libya. When asked why, he pauses, then leans forward in his chair and speaks slowly.
"The ICC does not have the death penalty," he says. "Libya does. We want Gaddafi brought to trial. We want the world to see what he has done. And then we want him brought to justice."
The ICC said the possible admissibility of mobile phone footage as evidence would be decided on a case-by-case basis. "If there is a conversation from the defense about certain evidence it is up to the judges to decide the admissibility of that evidence," ICC official Fadi el-Abdallah said.
"The Revolution Did Not Kill Him"
The rebel flag flies everywhere in Misrata now. It is painted on lamp posts, empty oil drums and even the old cargo containers that serve at increasingly irrelevant checkpoints in the city. The people of Misrata boast of how quickly law and order has been restored to the streets — a feat more elusive for Benghazi, Libya's second city and home to the National Transitional Council, the ruling body for the parts of the country under rebel control.
Today, too, everyone knows Libya's old national anthem.
But while Ayman Al Sahli, who first heard that anthem on the mobile phone of his friend Mohammed Al Madani last December, says he still backs the revolution, he mourns the loss of his friend, who was killed near the frontline on April 27.
When the fighting began, the accountant who had arranged the beach hut dinner began working for the rebel-run radio station in Misrata, making frequent trips to the station to report on the latest events at the frontline. Al Sahli was sitting with him and other friends when a mortar fired by Gaddafi loyalists struck, killing Al Madani instantly.
"The revolution did not kill Al Madani, Gaddafi did," Al Sahli said. "More than anything, I want Libya to be free. But I lost my joy the day my friend died."
(Nick Carey reported from Misrata in July; additional reporting by Aaron Gray-Block in Amsterdam; Edited by Simon Robinson and Sara Ledwith)
Comparing Israel's and Iran's Nuclear Programs
July 14, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By John Steinbach
John Steinbach, an educator and author, has written extensively on environmental, economics, energy, social justice and nuclear energy issues.
Iran's Head of Atomic Energy Organization Fereyoun Abbasi-Davani attends the Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety in Vienna in Vienna June 20, 2011. REUTERS/Herwig Prammer |
Despite being a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), since its 1979 revolution and especially over the past 10 years, Iran has come under unprecedented scrutiny by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations Security Council over its nuclear program. Meanwhile, Israel—one of only four NPT non-signatories (Pakistan, India and North Korea are the others) and the only state in the Middle East actually possessing nuclear weapons—has remained free from any meaningful international oversight. While Iran has suffered debilitating economic sanctions over unproven suspicions that it might have a clandestine nuclear weapons program, Israel, with an arsenal of hundreds of modern nuclear weapons and a sophisticated delivery system capable of targeting the entire Middle East and Europe, is permitted to act with impunity.
Not only has this blatant double standard over the Iranian and Israeli nuclear programs been recognized by many observers as weakening the international nuclear non-proliferation agenda, but it raises the specter of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Shortly before stepping down as IAEA director general in November 2009, Mohammed Elbaradei declared, "This is not really sustainable that you have Israel sitting with nuclear weapons capability there while everyone else is part of the non-proliferation regime." As Joseph Cirincione, former director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, points out, "The world does well to remember that most Middle East weapons programs began as a response to Israel's nuclear weapons—It should be obvious that Israelis are better off in a region where no one has nuclear weapons than in one where many nations have them."
The Shah's Nuclear Program
Iran's nuclear program had its beginnings in the 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup that deposed Prime Minister Mohammad Mosadegh and installed Mohammed Reza Pahlavi to power. That same year President Dwight Eisenhower gave his "Atoms for Peace" speech promoting the civilian uses of nuclear technology, including the promotion of nuclear power.
Under the aegis of a civilian nuclear cooperation program established under the Atoms for Peace program, Iran sent students abroad to study nuclear engineering in the United States and in 1967 established the Tehran Nuclear Research Center (TNRC) run by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI). The TNRC's centerpiece was a U.S.-supplied 5-megawatt reactor fueled with Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU). The following year, Iran signed the NPT, making its nuclear program subject to IAEA verification inspections.
In the early 1970s, Tehran approved plans for 20 commercial power reactors, with the shah stating in 1974, "Petroleum is a noble material, much too valuable to burn—We envision producing, as soon as possible, 23,000 megawatts of electricity using nuclear plants."
With its substantial oil revenue, Iran proceeded to order its first two nuclear power reactors at Bushear from Germany in 1975. It also signed a contract with France to construct two more reactors at Darkhovin. To supply the reactors with fuel, Iran invested in a uranium enrichment factory in France, with the shah lending the Eurodif consortium (including France, Sweden, Belgium and Spain) more than $1 billion for the right to purchase 10 percent of the production of enriched uranium.
In 1976, the U.S. offered Iran a reprocessing facility for extracting plutonium from used reactor fuel. "Introduction of nuclear power will provide for the growing needs of Iran's economy," Washington stated, "and free remaining oil reserves for export or conversion to petrochemicals." This argument supporting nuclear power continues to be the basis of Iran's current nuclear power rationale.
In addition, Iran signed an agreement with the apartheid regime in South Africa whereby Iran helped finance the development of nuclear fuel technology in return for guaranteed supplies of enriched uranium.
By the late 1970s, concerns about nuclear proliferation and a potential Iranian nuclear weapons program resulted in erosion of U.S. support for Iran's nuclear ambitions. American pressure on France and Germany led to cancellation of the Bushear and Darkhovin reactors. France refused to deliver the enriched uranium purchased under the Eurodif partnership. The plutonium-reprocessing offer was withdrawn. By the time of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Iranian nuclear program was in disarray.
Iran's Nuclear Program Since 1979
For the first few years after the revolution, Iran's nuclear program was at a standstill due to the confluence of several influences: withdrawal of Western support; the mass exodus of Iranian nuclear scientists; the opposition to nuclear technology of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini; and Israel's destruction of Iraq's nuclear facility at Osiraq. This began to change in the late 1980s, especially after Khomeini's death in 1989. In 1995, Iran signed a contract with Russia to complete the two Bushear reactors, which had been damaged during the Iran-Iraq war. The first reactor is now scheduled to go online sometime this year. Officials also announced resumption of work on the Darkhovin project, with plans for an operational 360 megawatt reactor by 2016. To fuel these reactors, Iran has initiated an ambitious integrated program of uranium mines, uranium processing and enrichment facilities, a heavy water production facility, and research reactors.
As it is legally entitled to do under provisions of the NPT, Tehran has proceeded with a uranium conversion and enrichment program. Primarily focused on low enriched uranium for the power reactors, Iran has also produced smaller amounts of 20 percent enriched uranium to fuel a reactor for producing medical isotopes.
Despite the fact that Iran allowed unprecedented inspections of its nuclear facilities by the IAEA, which found no evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program, the Security Council has imposed several sets of sanctions against Iran. The reason given for these sanctions is Tehran's delay in declaring the existence of several nuclear facilities, and a lack of transparency about former nuclear and missile-related programs. Iran has responded that it has complied with the legal requirements of the NPT and that the sanctions have been politically motivated. As recently as February 2011, the IAEA has continued to state that there is no evidence that Iran is currently pursuing a nuclear weapons program, a finding that conforms to a 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate (NIE).
The History of Israel's Nuclear Program
Israel's nuclear program had its inception with the establishment of the state in 1948. Profoundly influenced by the horrors of the Holocaust, Ernst David Bergmann, "father" of the Israeli bomb program, and David Ben-Gurion began a program to develop nuclear weapons because, in the words of Bergmann, "The State of Israel needs a defense research program of its own, so that we shall never again be as lambs led to the slaughter." In 1952, the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission was established, and the Israeli bomb project initiated.
Like the Iranians, Israel eagerly signed up with Washington's Atoms for Peace Program and, like the Iranians, was rewarded by the U.S. with a 5 megawatt highly enriched uranium research reactor. By the mid-1950s, Israeli nuclear and computer scientists began collaborating with their French counterparts in the French bomb project, and were integral partners with Paris in the Algerian atomic bomb tests. For its part, France reciprocated by building Israel a natural uranium heavy water moderated plutonium production reactor and reprocessing plant at Dimona. Israel also forged a nuclear partnership with South Africa's apartheid regime, providing it with technical and economic assistance in return for access to uranium and missile launch test facilities.
Despite Israel's assurances to Washington that Dimona was a peaceful research facility, extreme security measures—including shooting down one of its own Mirage fighters, and a civilian Libyan airline, killing 104 civilians—told a far different story. Dimona went online in 1964 and plutonium production began shortly thereafter. By 1966 Israel had built its first nuclear weapon, and by the 1967 war two nuclear weapons were ready for use. During the 1973 war, Israel possessed several dozen nuclear weapons and threatened to use them in order to coerce the U.S. into providing a massive airlift of weapons.
By the 1970s, U.S. intelligence agencies had become aware of Israel's nuclear bomb program, but it was generally thought that its arsenal consisted of no more than a relative handful of primitive devices.
These estimates were demolished in 1986, when a Dimona nuclear technician, Mordechai Vanunu, smuggled out hundreds of photos published in the Sunday—London Times. Analysis by senior nuclear weapons designers Frank Barnaby and Ted Taylor showed that Israel possessed approximately 200 highly sophisticated nuclear weapons, including boosted fission and, perhaps, hydrogen bombs. Barnaby concluded, "The acquisition by Israel of lithium deuteride implies that it has become a thermonuclear-weapon power—a manufacturer of hydrogen bombs—Israel has the ability to turn out the weapons with a yield of 200-250 kilotons."
Although Israel maintained—and still maintains—a position of "nuclear ambiguity," neither acknowledging or denying its nuclear arsenal, the Israeli "bomb in the basement" was now an open secret.
Israel's Nuclear Arsenal
Most estimates of Israel's current nuclear arsenal range from about 100 to over 400 weapons, making it comparable in size to the British, French and Chinese arsenals. However, given the sophistication of the weapons and their delivery systems, and the immense power of these weapons, the actual size of the Israeli arsenal is largely moot. Even at the lowest estimates, Israel possesses enough nuclear weapons to destroy every major Middle Eastern city several times over. Like the U.S. and Russia, the Israeli nuclear threat is based on a triad of delivery systems: long-range bombers, ballistic missiles and submarines, with which it can target all of Europe and the Middle East, and much of Asia and Africa.
The Israeli nuclear bomber fleet consists of 25 F-15-E and 102 highly modified F-16-I fighter-bombers with a reported range of nearly 4,500 kilometers—enough to fly from Israel to Iran and back. The Israeli ballistic missile arsenal consists of approximately 100 Jericho-1 and 50 Jericho-2 missiles. The Jericho-1 missile has a range of over 500 kilometers and can reach Damascus or Cairo. According to the widely respected Jane's Intelligence Review, the Jericho-2 has an extended range of approximately 5,000 kilometers carrying a 2,500 kilogram payload. A more powerful missile called Jericho-3 is under development.
The third leg of the triad consists of five Dolphin-Class submarines (three currently deployed and two more scheduled for deployment in 2011 or 2012). These super-sophisticated diesel-powered subs, built for Israel by the Germans, have an extended range of about 8,000 kilometers. The two new subs scheduled for delivery during the coming year have an extended range of 10,000 kilometers.
In 2000, an Israeli submarine successfully launched a cruise missile that destroyed a target more than 900 miles away. Israel currently is stationing its submarines in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea—targeting Iran.
Washington Report
Syrians Flee Town as Troops Approach
June 16, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrians fled a restive town toward the Turkish border, fearing bloodshed as troops with tanks approached, under orders to hit back after the government accused armed bands there of killing scores of its security men.
Though accounts of days of killing in Jisr al-Shughour ranged from an official version of gunmen ambushing troops to residents' reports of an army mutiny, it triggered international alarm that violence may enter a new and bloodier phase after three months of popular unrest that has left over 1,000 dead.
France and Britain, allies in the war against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, took a lead in pushing U.N. moves against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. But Russia, citing NATO's inconclusive bombing of Tripoli, said it would veto intervention against Syria in the United Nations Security Council.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, at U.N. headquarters in New York, said it was "a question of days, maybe hours" before the Council voted on a resolution condemning Syria. A draft circulated last month does not propose military intervention.
At Jisr al-Shughour, home to tens of thousands of people, residents said they were taking cover and bracing for attacks.
"The army is taking up position around Jisr al-Shughour," one anti-government activist told Reuters by telephone, saying residents have seen troops approaching the northeastern town from Aleppo, Syria's second city, and from Latakia on the coast.
"Most people have left the town because they are scared," he said, asking not to be named for his own safety. "They know the deaths will be high. People have gone to nearby villages close to the Turkish border. The doctors and nurses have also left."
On Monday, Information Minister Adnan Mahmoud said army units would carry out their "national duty to restore security."
The government has expelled independent journalists, making it hard to determine clearly what is happening in the country.
Despite enthusiasm for pro-democracy movements that have unseated dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, few Western leaders — let alone their autocratic Arab partners — have shown a will to intervene in Syria, an Iranian ally whose volatile mix of ethnic and religious groups sits astride a web of regional conflicts.
Foreign Pressure
Assad's family and supporters from the minority Alawite sect have dominated Syria since his late father seized power 41 years ago. He has responded with promises of reform, and a crackdown on protesters in towns across the country. His officials accuse radical Islamists of fomenting a violent, armed revolt.
Neighboring countries, including Israel and Turkey, worry that a collapse into chaos could set off sectarian conflict and the emergence of violent, radical Islamists, as happened in Neighboring Iraq after the U.S. invasion of 2003.
But Western powers kept up pressure. British Foreign Secretary William Hague, in some of London's strongest language yet against the 45-year-old leader, told parliament: "President Assad is losing legitimacy and should reform or step aside." He said European governments were looking at further sanctions.
"We are working to persuade other countries that the Security Council has a responsibility to speak out," Hague added. Russia appears opposed to a general condemnation of Assad, let alone authorising military action against him.
U.S. President Barack Obama, who last month urged Assad to lead a transition to democracy or "get out of the way," did not mention Syria in remarks at a news briefing on Tuesday.
But in Brussels, Russia's envoy to the European Union, Vladimir Chizhov, said: "The prospect of a U.N. Security Council resolution that's along the same lines as Resolution 1973 on Libya will not be supported by my country … The use of force, as Libya shows, does not provide answers."
Veto-holding Russia abstained on the Libya vote, allowing NATO to begin a bombing campaign that Western powers say saved civilians in rebel-held Benghazi from an onslaught by Gaddafi's forces, but which has failed to dislodge the Libyan leader.
Syria's ambassador to France strongly denied a report on Tuesday that she had resigned in protest at the government's repression of protests, saying it was part of a campaign of disinformation against Damascus.
Lamia Chakkour, shown standing in front of a portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Paris embassy, told France's BFM television that a report by news channel France 24, featuring a telephone interview with a woman claiming to be her, was false.
(Additional reporting by Mariam Karouny and Yara Bayoumy in Beirut; Writing by Alastair Macdonald; Editing by Michael Roddy)
Successful Demonstration for Freedom in Syria and Libya
By Susan Schwartz, TMO
As revolutions sweep the Muslim world, the Southern California community, home to many from that area and their children, are taking a proactive interest in events there.
The Syrian community in the greater Los Angeles area and the Libyan Emergency Task Force there sponsored a well attended and successful demonstration in front of the Federal Building in Los Angeles this past weekend. The event was held to show support for and solidarity with the people of Syria and Libya.
In announcing the demonstration the organizers called attention to the 48 years of one party rule in Syria. Attention also was focused on the civilian deaths resulting from the repressive measures, including the use of live ammunition and mass arrests, on the part of Syrian Special Forces.
The Libyan Emergency Task Force supports the passage of United Nations Security Council resolution 1973 which authorizes all necessary measures to protect civilian life including the well publicized "no fly zone". The Task Force acknowledges the need for United States participation to unseat dictator Muammar Qaddifi.
The local Libyan Emergency Task Force is in contact with the main office, located in Washington, D. C. . A meeting will be held in the near future to facilitate the centralization of the group's work.
Idris Traina, a spokesperson for the Task Force, told The Muslim Observer that a critical situation – a barrier -exists with respect to aiding the Libyan civilians. It is presently against United States law to send money to Libya even under the auspices of charity and for humanitarian reasons. Efforts are underway through contact with elected officials to repeal or mitigate this law.
When asked what type of government he wanted for Libya, he replied one that is "democratic and free" with an "open society and formation of political parties".
A fundraiser for Libya was held in early March and others are planned for the future as soon as US based charity organizations are allowed to provide help inside Libya.
Motorists travelling along the busy thoroughfare where the Federal Building is located honked their approval of the signs held by the demonstrators.
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i8: BMW Spyder Hybrid Sport Car, Reaching One Hundred Kilometers Using 3 Liters Of Fuel!
Competing with Porsche for Spyder Sport car? If you remembered about the Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid Sport car back in August 2010, the BMW's Vision EfficientDynamics as well as the latest i8 Spyder hybrid concept sport cars could become a potential rival for Porsche's 918 Spyder Hybrid sport car in near future.
BMW i8 Spyder concept, is the same model featured in the Mission Impossible 4′s movie with 2 seater, only this time is the convertible version. The latest BMW i8 Spyder will be equipped with plug-in hybrid technology that combine a high-performance eDrive drivetrain electric motor with an internal diesel combustion engine, capable to offer up to 354 horsepower.
Let's roll the video for a good glance at BMW i8 Spyder…
Video Credit: SupercarHall & BMW
The front end offers a particularly revealing window into the open-top two-seater's dynamic talent. One defining element is the headlights with pioneering laser light technology, which follow the hallmark BMW i U-shaped design template. A semi-transparent "V" opens out from the front end of the flat bonnet towards the windscreen and beckons the eye to the electric motor below. A spoiler lip positioned on the windscreen frame guides the airflow over the heads of the passengers. And for journeys when the weather cannot quite be trusted, the planned two-section folding roof might well come in handy.
A bit info about the latest BMW i8 Spyder concept:
3 Driving modes: electric, petrol, combination of the two
3-cylinder 1.5 liter petrol engine – 164kw
electric motor – 96kw
3 liter per 100 km / 78 MPG (US)
0 -100 km/h (62 mph) – 5.0 sec
Top speed: 250 km/h (155 mph)
Weight: 1,630 kg – 3,600 lbs
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Well, it's officially Spring. FINALLY. I've had it with this cold weather! However, with the weather getting warmer, that means the time for our little peanut's arrival is getting closer and closer- yikes. I haven't done one single thing to get his nursery ready. Oops. Well, I did buy a rug. So there's that. The good news is I've already found most of the wall decorations and stuff on Etsy, and I *think* I've found the bedding, so I guess that means I'm getting somewhere.
Now, these "brownies". I've been seriously craving lemon for a while now. However, I recently FAILED (ugh) my one-hour glucose test (the preliminary test that helps determine whether or not a pregnant mom has gestational diabetes), which means I had to go back and take the dreaded 3-hour test. I had to go in first thing in the morning and have my blood drawn, then drink another lovely bottle of the sugary, disgusting "fruit punch". THEN I had to sit around doing nothing for 3 more hours and have my blood drawn 3 more times. What fun. I left feeling jittery and starving, and my arms looked like a heroin addict's.
So in the time I had to wait for my results, I really felt like I shouldn't be eating much sugar- just in case. Which meant no lemony desserts…which is what I really wanted. Really, really, really. So when I got the call saying I PASSED with flying colors (hallelujah!), the first thing I did (besides my happy dance) was bake these lemon brownies. Then I ate most of them. Right then. They were oh-SO good. Dense, but not too thick, chewy, and perfectly, wonderfully tart. The glaze is what takes them over the top- don't skip the glaze. Just don't.
Lemon Brownies
3/4 cup flour
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 tablespoon salt
1 stick butter, softened
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
juice and zest of 1 lemon
Combine the flour, sugar and salt in a large bowl. Mix in the softened butter.
In another bowl whisk the eggs with the vanilla, lemon juice and zest. Add to the larger bowl and mix well. Pour into a greased 8X8 pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 23-25 minutes.
Remove and let cool, then glaze.
1/2 cup powdered sugar
Juice and zest of 1 lemon
Whisk together.
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Almost all schools around the world nowadays teach programming and one of the considered most basic and easiest programming language being taught to children is a computer language named scratch and you could probably see a bunch of tutorials on Youtube and on other sites. This program was developed by MIT lab and was released on 2006 and upon its release the developers of scratch aimed to help people understand how programming is done by using scratch and it's easy, user friendly features. This program isn't limited to programming only, since it's market aim of age was meant for kids, the made it a point that this program won't only help kids understand programming but also motivate them by having fun with other features of scratch. Some of the activities you could do on scratch is animations, simulation, computer games, interactive projects, graphic designs, music projects, storytelling, programming concept and many more.
Not only will children be aware of how programming is done but they will also develop more complex minds since there are other activities you could do with scratch and each one of those activities could help your children even if their chosen career won't be related to computers. And furthermore, scratch program's activities offer's more stimulation for children to succeed in their goal. Patience is the key with making programs and in scratch you also have fun making your own program because they use blocks and each block different colors in order to segregate what order you would like for your character to do. And you need not worry if you don't get this right, there are a lot of scratch tutorials when you search the net especially video tutorials or you could always go to scratch's community page and there you'll see an assortment of projects done by different people. You could see how well done their work is and you could also ask questions there.
It's a guarantee, though, that after you make your very first program you would be interested to make another because it's very satisfying- the feeling you get when you succeeded on a goal. But there are always hurdles you need to go through to before you achieve success. And like all things complex, this program still requires trial and error, but as I've said, you need not worry if your work isn't perfect since this there are other's there still working their way through the program. But if you practice often enough you'll get the hang of it and eventually you will be interested in doing the other activities to your liking that scratch is offering. What's great is that you get to compare your work with other people if you sign up for the scratch projects online community. There, you'll meet and even get to know more about the people who are interested in making programs. You could even get tips and tidbits from other people. Scour the information about scratch programming if you want to enrich you knowledge about it, there are unlimited scratch tutorials you could use that can be found on the internet, and in the long run you'll be thankful when you learn those things because with every different programs you make you'll feel a great sense of fulfilment and ownership that's the result of such simple programming.


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Smells like both lavender and vanilla. This is light, fresh, and sheer; it only has a touch of scent, but is stronger and lasts longer if layered with the coordinating products (Nearly Nude body wash, Indulge Me body oil, Amazing All Over body lotion, Seriously Soft body cream). I don't know if this actually softens and moisturizes skin on it's own, as I use the matching products before using it.


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Tweeting, Tweeting, Gone! Nate Westheimer Sold His First Coding Side Project, Ohours, Thanks to Twitter
It's a very New York story! Less than a year ago, man-about-New-York-tech Nate Westheimer, a Non-cOding Product Executive, or NOPE, retreated into a "sweat lodge" with a Ruby on Rails book and an idea he'd been sitting on for more than two years.
"It was something I really, really needed," Mr. Westheimer told Betabeat via Google Chat. He'd been using "a hacky combination of tools" to approximate a web-based calendar to coordinate open office hours. "When I started teaching myself to code I told Vin Vacanti a few ideas I had, and he said if I build Ohours he'd be the first user on it. Knowing at least one other person would use the product really inspired me to build it."
Mr. Westheimer launched the site back in December and local techies started testing it out. As promised, Mr. Vacanti was a prolific user, although Forrst founder Kyle Bragger was technically the first to sign up. Shelby.tv founder Reece Pacheco gave it a try; Union Square Ventures's Gary Chou wrote a rave review. TechStars's Dave Tisch is a fan. And so on.
But in May Mr. Westheimer was ready to move on to other schemes. "I wonder if there someone out there who LOVES @Ohours, has what it takes to run a startup, and hacks Rails at least as well as I do…," he tweeted. Read More


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Denver Cruisers to be featured in Travel Channel pilot with off-season ride
People across the country may have their eyes on the Mile High City because legalized marijuana is officially a thing. But Denver's also going to get some national attention for another celebrated activity: its night-time bike parties. The Denver Cruisers are hosting an off-season ride tonight that will be featured in a new Travel Channel pilot.
The Cruisers don't typically do their Wednesday night group rides in the winter, but when the producers of the program reached out and said they wanted to feature the cycling group in the pilot, Brad Evans, founder of the Denver Cruiser Ride, decided to make an exception.
"There's been some news stories, but this is the first [time]...the Cruisers are being featured as something to do in Denver," Evans says. "It's exciting to have the Cruisers called out." Denver Cruisers Flyer for Denver Cruiser ride event tonight.
The ride tonight comes just weeks after the Denver Police Department announced that cyclists riding drunk will now be subject to DUI laws. It was a policy shift that concerned bike advocates across the city, including Evans, given that the Cruiser Ride typically stops at bars.
DPD has said it is not planning on doing any sort of targeted enforcement around these kinds of events -- and besides, the next Cruiser Ride wasn't expected to take place for months until Evans decided to schedule this one.
Either way, Evans isn't too worried.
"On the maps, we're gonna say... 'Don't ride drunk,'" he says. "I'm not paranoid about it. I'm trying to get people to be responsible. That's the best I can do."
Plus, it's not too long of a ride tonight, given that the cyclists will be focused on the reality shoot.
Continue for more about the Denver Cruisers' ride and the Travel Channel pilot.
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Bedrooms | 4 |
Bathrooms | 3 |
Property type | lodge |
Minimum Stay | 1 - 2 nights |
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Come experience the magic of Yellowstone National Park. Our custom log lodge, located just 5 miles from the north entrance of Yellowstone, is just the place to hang your hat after a long day of Yellowstone adventuring. This 4 bedroom, 3 bath, 3000 sq. ft custom cabin/timber frame home luxuriously sleeps 8-10. Reclaimed lumber, true plaster, slate, hardwood flooring, and unique western touches ornate this vacation rental. Enjoy a cup of coffee or a gourmet meal on the expansive deck while soaking in the immense views of Yellowstone, specifically the steam from Mammoth Hot Springs. Let the sounds of Bear Creek soothe your soul.
Summer in Yellowstone includes whitewater rafting, hiking in Yellowstone, fly fishing, horseback riding, wildlife viewing and more! Imagine those Montana clear blue skies as you cast your fishing line on nearby blue-ribbon trout streams. Feel your heart skip a beat at the wonderous views in Yellowstone National Park, and the many moose, elk, wolves or bear you might catch a peak of. Summer in Montana and Yellowstone National Park is not to be missed!
"Our goal is for each guest to have the best possible experience in Yellowstone and they can pick from a myriad of adventures to fit their groups needs and desires," said lodge owner Lisa Coleman.
We welcome everyone who wishes to enjoy Yellowstone and all that it has to offer. Please see our other rentals #122533 and #132784, if you are interested in weddings or big family reunions.
I have been a Yellowstone back country ranger for many years and am happy to help you arrange all activities including but not limited to fly fishing, hiking, rafting, horseback riding, dog sledding, and tours within Yellowstone.
I own and manage all of my vacation rentals to provide the special attention that each guest deserves. I was a backcountry ranger in Yellowstone for many years and am happy to help you arrange activities in and outside of the park. My goal is for each guest to have a Yellowstone adventure that they will never forget.
We built this home from recycled materials found in Montana. The original building was an old homestead built in the 1800's that a farmer was going to burn down. Instead, we tore down the logs and re-stacked it in Jardine. Other materials include an old fence torn down by a neighbor. The walls are plaster with slate in the bathrooms and kitchen. This used to be our home and we loved the unique touches. Please come and see for yourself the beauty in recycling.
The Sunny Slope Lodge is only 5 miles to the north gate of Yellowstone and the town of Gardiner. The park, restaurants, shops, activities are all at your fingertips yet you may never want to leave the house. You truly feel out of the hustle and bustle of town and Yellowstone yet you are only a stone's throw away from everything.
"What a beautiful setting and the house is gorgeous too! I rented this place to have a xmas gathering for me and 7 of my friends. We couldn't of chosen a better place. The house was clean and well equipped and the beds were extremely comfortable. None of us wanted to get up in the morning. I would definitely recommend this place and I myself would love to stay again sometime. The North entrance to Yellowstone National Park is only a few miles away, which is super convenient. If you plan to stay here during the winter, be sure to have good tires or 4wheel drive if there is snow on the ground. The driveway can be a challenge for a wimpy sedan :)"
Other Activities: Shopping, Kayaking, Boating, Cross Country Skiing, Snowboarding, Wildlife Viewing
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Tax Rate | 7.0% |
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New Revised Standard (NRS) | New International Version (NIV) |
1 The plans of the mind belong to mortals, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. | 1 To man belong the plans of the heart, but from the LORD comes the reply of the tongue. |
2 All one's ways may be pure in one's own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit. | 2 All a man's ways seem innocent to him, but motives are weighed by the LORD. |
3 Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established. | 3 Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. |
4 The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. | 4 The LORD works out everything for his own ends-- even the wicked for a day of disaster. |
5 All those who are arrogant are an abomination to the Lord; be assured, they will not go unpunished. | 5 The LORD detests all the proud of heart. Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished. |
6 By loyalty and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord one avoids evil. | 6 Through love and faithfulness sin is atoned for; through the fear of the LORD a man avoids evil. |
7 When the ways of people please the Lord, he causes even their enemies to be at peace with them. | 7 When a man's ways are pleasing to the LORD, he makes even his enemies live at peace with him. |
8 Better is a little with righteousness than large income with injustice. | 8 Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice. |
9 The human mind plans the way, but the Lord directs the steps. | 9 In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps. |
10 Inspired decisions are on the lips of a king; his mouth does not sin in judgment. | 10 The lips of a king speak as an oracle, and his mouth should not betray justice. |
11 Honest balances and scales are the Lord's; all the weights in the bag are his work. | 11 Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are of his making. |
12 It is an abomination to kings to do evil, for the throne is established by righteousness. | 12 Kings detest wrongdoing, for a throne is established through righteousness. |
13 Righteous lips are the delight of a king, and he loves those who speak what is right. | 13 Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value a man who speaks the truth. |
14 A king's wrath is a messenger of death, and whoever is wise will appease it. | 14 A king's wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will appease it. |
15 In the light of a king's face there is life, and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain. | 15 When a king's face brightens, it means life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring. |
16 How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. | 16 How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver! |
17 The highway of the upright avoids evil; those who guard their way preserve their lives. | 17 The highway of the upright avoids evil; he who guards his way guards his life. |
18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. | 18 Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. |
19 It is better to be of a lowly spirit among the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud. | 19 Better to be lowly in spirit and among the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud. |
20 Those who are attentive to a matter will prosper, and happy are those who trust in the Lord. | 20 Whoever gives heed to instruction prospers, and blessed is he who trusts in the LORD. |
21 The wise of heart is called perceptive, and pleasant speech increases persuasiveness. | 21 The wise in heart are called discerning, and pleasant words promote instruction. |
22 Wisdom is a fountain of life to one who has it, but folly is the punishment of fools. | 22 Understanding is a fountain of life to those who have it, but folly brings punishment to fools. |
23 The mind of the wise makes their speech judicious, and adds persuasiveness to their lips. | 23 A wise man's heart guides his mouth, and his lips promote instruction. |
24 Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body. | 24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. |
25 Sometimes there is a way that seems to be right, but in the end it is the way to death. | 25 There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. |
26 The appetite of workers works for them; their hunger urges them on. | 26 The laborer's appetite works for him; his hunger drives him on. |
27 Scoundrels concoct evil, and their speech is like a scorching fire. | 27 A scoundrel plots evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire. |
28 A perverse person spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends. | 28 A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends. |
29 The violent entice their neighbors, and lead them in a way that is not good. | 29 A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good. |
30 One who winks the eyes plans perverse things; one who compresses the lips brings evil to pass. | 30 He who winks with his eye is plotting perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil. |
31 Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life. | 31 Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained by a righteous life. |
32 One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and one whose temper is controlled than one who captures a city. | 32 Better a patient man than a warrior, a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city. |
33 The lot is cast into the lap, but the decision is the Lord's alone. | 33 The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD. |
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Morning click: Jay-Z skips "the World," Knack frontman dies
- Jay-Z was one of pop music's numerous A-listers who chose not to take part in the new "We Are the World" remake organized to benefit earthquake relief in Haiti. How come, Jay? "I don't ever wanna see it touched," the rap icon tells MTV. "I know the plight and everything that's going on in Haiti. I applaud the efforts... It was a valiant effort, but for me, it's gonna be untouchable." ( For what it's worth, we agree!)
- Sad news: Doug Fieger, leader of the power pop band The Knack, died Sunday after a battle with cancer. Best known for the 1979 hit "My Sharona," Fieger was 57.
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February 15, 2010; 11:10 AM ET
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Since her parents' bitter divorce, Mclean and her dad, a restaurant consultant, have been on the move – four towns in two years. Estranged from her mother and her mother's new family, Mclean has followed her dad in leaving the unhappy past behind. And each new place gives her a chance to try out a new persona: from cheerleader to drama diva. But now, for the first time, Mclean discovers a desire to stay in one place and just be herself – whoever that is. Perhaps her neighbor Dave, an academic superstar trying to be just a regular guy, can help her find out. Combining Sarah Dessen's trademark graceful writing, great characters, and compelling storytelling, What Happened to Goodbye is irresistible reading.
"Dessen's talent is creating just that comfortable space for young adults struggling with identity, relationships, and all that messy family stuff. Her quirky characters reach out to one another to forge genuine friendships and gentle first loves."
– The Horn Book"Dessen's fans will be happy to devour this latest offering."
– SLJ"Dessen once again offers a substantive, well-crafted exploration of a teen's life that will deeply satisfy her legions of fans."
– Booklist"Dessen's prose is clean and focused, the characters are developed and real, and the plot is believable. Mclean's journey through the healing process after her parents' divorce provides bibliotherapy for any teen dealing with family issues, and the secondary plot of tentative steps toward trust and friendship is beautiful. This is a must-have for any young adult collection."


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Archive for the 'Flex' Category
Critical Vulnerability in Adobe's Flash And Acrobat
June 7th, 2010 by Team Pi
The mainstream 10.0 editions of Flash can yield to critical vulnerability which is being exploited in by hackers according to Adobe. The 9.x editions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat which incorporate 10.0 Flash compatibility are also vulnerable.
The 10.1 generation of Flash, is not affected by this vulnerability. Users can download the 10.1 beta from Adobe Read more
Transition from Flex Builder 3 to Flash Builder 4
May 20th, 2010 by Team Pi
There may be various approaches to use Flash Builder 4 with your existing Flex 3 projects. The approaches can vary depending on the Flex SDK features you need and the kind of migration that you are ready to undergo.
The transition from Flex 3 apps (developed using Flex Builder 3) to Flash Builder 4 does not Read more
The new Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 HTML5 Pack
May 20th, 2010 by Team Pi
Adobe has introduced a technology preview of the Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 HTML5 Pack extension.
This extension offers initial support for HTML5 and CSS3 in Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. It helps you create HTML5 pages and CSS3 styles in a simple way. It also includes updates and WebKit improvements for Design View and Live View rendering.
Here is a Read more
Flash Builder 4: A Cool Upgrade to Flex Builder 3
May 17th, 2010 by Team Pi
Flash Builder 4 has been recently introduced to Adobe Creative Suite for the release of CS5. It is primarily a program designed to create interfaces that gather data (via forms) and present data (through views) from server databases.
Flash Builder 4 was formerly known as Flex Builder which was quite similar to Flash Professional. The closest Read more
Android App Development Gets Easier With Slider Framework for Flex 4
May 15th, 2010 by Team Pi
A recent study showed that Android has overtaken Apple to claim the top spot as smartphone providers in the U.S. Interestingly, Adobe is venturing into the mobile market and is focusing on developing apps for Android devices. With the rapid expansion of the mobile market, developers need to focus on developing apps and delivering them Read more
iPad Fuels the Flex vs. Ajax Conflict
April 29th, 2010 by Team Pi
The launch of the iPad has spurred an old debate – Which is better, Ajax or Flex. The fact that iPad does not support Flash has not only stirred the dormant argument, but also brought up questions about the future of RIA technology.
Both the technologies are essentially different with a distinct set of strengths and Read more
New Flash Builder 4 From Adobe
March 22nd, 2010 by Team Pi
Adobe Systems has launched Flash Builder 4 and ColdFusion Builder software, an NxG Flash Platform tooling for building multi-platform Rich Internet Apps (RIAs). The Flash Builder 4 is an Eclipse-based development tool for building multi-platform RIAs and content, using open source Flex framework. It accelerates development and testing of RIAs and content, and provides new Read more
Substitutes for LiveCycle Data Services
March 18th, 2010 by Team Pi
The development of Flex/Java rich internet apps are benefitted by the usage of automated data integration solutions and productivity tools. Adobe offers two such apps- LiveCycle Data Services ES2 (LCDS) and open source BlazeDS 3. While LiveCycle Data Services is perfect for those who need support for thousands of users, its high cost of licensing Read more


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Recent events Sustaining Soil Productivity in Response to Global Climate Change / International Symposium on Climate Change and Adaptation Options in Agriculture / International Workshop on Communicating Weather and Climate Products and Services for Sustainable Agriculture / Second Experts' Symposium on Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems / WMO RA IV Hurricane Committee Sustaining Soil Productivity in Response to Global Climate Change WMO co-sponsored the Workshop on Sustaining Soil Productivity in Response to Global Climate Change—Science, Policy and Ethics which was organized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Twenty five experts from around the world participated in the workshop which addressed environmental issues relating to natural resource stewardship and strategies to evaluate the inevitable compromises made when balancing human and natural resources, emerging technologies, the environment and social issues. International Symposium on Climate Change and Adaptation Options in Agriculture The workshop was sponsored by WMO, Adaptation of agriculture in European regions at environmental risk under Climate Change (ADAGIO) project, EU COST ACTION 734 "Impact of Climate Change and Variability on European Agriculture", the Central and Eastern Europe Climate Change Impacts and Vulnerability Assessment" (CECILIA) project and hosted by the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna. Over 60 participants attended the International Symposium from many European countries and organizations. The symposium was held in conjunction with the meeting of the WMO Commission for Agricultural Meteorology RA VI (Europe) Working Group on Agricultural Meteorology. The Working Group finalized plans to submit their report to the upcoming RA VI session in Brussels in September 2009. International Workshop on Communicating Weather and Climate Products and Services for Sustainable Agriculture The goal of the workshop was to improve the long-term sustainability of farming and agriculture through improving practical weather and climate information output for farmers worldwide. The Workshop was organized jointly by WMO, the University of Southern Queensland, and the South Australian Research and Development Institute. Other sponsors were the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, the Australian Managing for Climate Variability Research and Development Program and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The Workshop brought together more than 80 scientists mainly from Asia and the Pacific, and representatives of the agricultural sector, both from the academic world and the farming community. Senator Russell Trood, Queensland Senator to the Australian Senate gave the opening address of the workshop. Ms Bobbie Brazil, Chancellor of the University of Southern Queensland, and Peter Taylor, Mayor of Toowoomba, welcomed the participants. The workshop adopted a set of recommendations aimed at enhancing interaction between National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) and the farming community. Among the recommendations was the identification of a focal point by farmer associations and industry organizations, to interact with weather and climate service providers for product development and dissemination of agrometeorological information. During a farmers' round table session at the workshop, local farmers were asked if free and accurate weather and climate forecasts were more important than free seed and fertiliser. "You can always buy seed and fertiliser, but you can't buy the right sort of climate you need for your farming operation", one farmer said. Other recommendations aim at improving weather and climate information for farmers, for example by integrating climate projections into agrometeorological products, and by enhancing knowledge sharing between countries. This workshop was held in conjunction with the meetings of Expert Teams of the WMO Commission for Agricultural Meteorology. Second Experts' Symposium on Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS–II) with focus on Institutional Coordination and Collaboration of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services MHEWS II brought together nearly 70 experts from National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs), and Disaster Risk Management Agencies of 14 countries, as well representatives from international and regional agencies, including the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. This expert meeting:
During this meeting, the experts reviewed and discussed lessons learned from the four documented good practices from Shanghai/China, France, Cuba and Bangladesh as well as 10 other early warning systems presented by national experts from Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mozambique, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the USA. The documented good practices, together with the guidelines, will be published and used in current and future development projects as training materials and as a reference document on the role of NMHSs in EWS, with a focus on institutional coordination and cooperation. In 2009, training carried out through the WMO Regional Training Centre in Nanjing, China, in June, and a workshop targeted at South-East European countries in October, as part of a European Union-funded project for disaster risk reduction capacity building in this region, will be based on these materials. Furthermore, the experts recommended that additional good practices in EWS be documented in detail, with a multi-agency approach that would address institutional cooperation as well as a concept of operations. These cases should then be synthesized for lessons learned to develop the next volume of the guidelines focused on the concept of operations among agencies engaged in EWS. See feature article in this issue "Strengthening multi-hazard early warning systems' capacities to save lives" Hurricane experts gathered for the 31st session of the WMO RA IV Hurricane Committee in Nassau, Bahamas, 20-24 April 2009, to review the 2008 hurricane season and discuss the work plan for mitigating hurricane disasters in 2009 and beyond. The Hurricane Committee is an expert working group under WMO Regional Association IV (North and Central America and the Caribbean). It is composed of experts designated by the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services in this Region. One of the major objectives of the Committee is to ensure, through national and regionally coordinated early warning systems, that the risks of disasters, in particular loss of life, caused by tropical cyclones in the Region are reduced to a minimum. Every year before the hurricane season starts, the Committee organizes an annual session to discuss and summarize experience and practices in hurricane forecasting and warnings during the previous hurricane season, to update its Operational Plan for better coordination and cooperation, and to improve its Technical Plan to satisfy future requirements for operational hurricane forecasting and warning services in the region. At its 31st session, the Committee decided to make improvements in the advisories issued by the WMO Regional Specialized Meteorological Center (RSMC) in Miami and to retire three hurricane names in the north Atlantic, i.e. Gustav, Ike and Paloma, and one in the eastern North Pacific, Alma. In 2008, those hurricanes in the Atlantic region caused tens of billions of dollars of economic loss, and a reported death toll of some 750, mostly in Haiti. Hurricane Gustav at 1605 UTC August 30, 2008 |
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By: Jenna Lohse
(ABC 6 News) -- The annual Winterfest celebration is going on right now in Rochester, and one of the biggest events kicks off Tuesday.
Ice Carvers have been busy on Peace Plaza downtown preparing for SocialICE. Twelve thousand pounds of ice will be used. That will help make sculptures and seven themed ice bars.
"It really is a whole week process and everything is hand carved so I mean it's not that we can just bring out pieces that are molded we bring our tools and chainsaws and our clients and our chisels and we really chisel away at them," Ice chiseler Maurice Pearson said.
SocialICE runs Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 4 to 10 p.m. And Friday night, we'll be doing our 6 p.m. newscast live from the event so make sure you come say hi.
For an entire list of Winterfest activities and to learn more about social ice click on this link.


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"With a titanium spring, we can lower the hood and go to wider tires," adds Faller. "The designers are using titanium to make the cars look physically different."
Olin thinks titanium can find a place on high-end sports cars, but he thinks the cost will still keep it off more average cars.
"It will be a long time before you see titanium on the Honda Accord," he predicts.
One more immediate bright spot for titanium is the increased demand for deep-sea oil and gas drilling. Titanium works well underwater because of its flexibility and resistance to corrosion.
"As rigs dive deeper, they don't want to use as much steel because of the rigidity," says Olin.
Medical uses of the metal are also growing. Some people are now walking around with titanium inside their bodies.
"We use it in plates for fractures, cardiac stints, hips and knees, and artificial finger joints," says Dr. Ralph Cotton, Timet's director of medical applications. "In dentistry, we use it to put screws in the jawbone to anchor false teeth."
Doctors like titanium because it won't trigger allergic reactions the way other metals can, Cotton adds. "It's ideal, because it's non-corrosive and the body accepts it. It can be implanted without any host reaction."
Titanium's appeal even extends to low-tech homemade items. One Boulder entrepreneur has been successful selling titanium chopsticks. Chuck Lawhead says he came up with the idea at his martial arts school, the Chinese Shao-Lin Center in Boulder.
"In the Shao-Lin art, there's at least one form that uses chopsticks as a weapon," says Lawhead. "My instructor had this idea that it would be interesting to get some metal chopsticks made."
Lawhead works for a company that makes semiconductor supplies, and he talked to some of the machinists at work about manufacturing chopsticks. His martial arts instructor already had a pair of steel chopsticks that had started to rust, and he told Lawhead that he wanted the new ones to be made from titanium. Though skeptical about the cost, Lawhead didn't challenge the idea.
"When somebody is a seventh-degree black belt, you don't question them," he says.
They ended up ordering 150 pairs, which were manufactured locally. At $45 a pair, they sold quickly, mainly to students at the school. Besides using them as weapons, many of the students also eat with them.
"With other metal chopsticks, you can taste the metal," Lawhead says. "The titanium chopsticks are very neutral. They're virtually indestructible and very easy to clean."
After selling out the first batch, Lawhead ordered more. So far, he's sold 400 pairs.
Even though titanium has so many loyalists, it continues to be an outsider in the metal world. Just when it seems to be on the verge of a major breakthrough, some new obstacle arises.
Timet created a subsidiary, Tipro, to generate business in the auto-racing world. Racers are drawn to the metal because of its light weight and strength. Custom-built race cars are being made with titanium chassis and drive shafts in garages around the country.
However, some of the sanctioning bodies in various races have restricted the use of titanium, claiming its expense gives those with titanium race cars an unfair advantage. To find out what kind of metal has been used on the cars, the judges often use a magnet. (Titanium is not magnetic.)
Faller says a lot of race teams try to incorporate steel into their cars to disguise their use of titanium.
"We know of some race teams that do their best not to let people know what kind of metal they're using," he says. "They go to great lengths to make the titanium magnetic."
But the first residents of LoDo's Titanium building certainly aren't disguising their choice of metals. Buck Blessing bought a penthouse there, and he says the use of titanium on the exterior lured him.
"What I was attracted to about the building was its high quality," he says. "I think the titanium veneer adds to that impression. It's not inexpensive stuff."
Blessing is intrigued enough with the metal that he's considering using it on the interior of his unit, which he'll move into in June.
"I may use it on my fireplace flue and on the hood for my stove," he says. "I think titanium is much more attractive than stainless steel. It's a richer, deeper color."
He credits the developers for making a statement with their choice of metals.
"They want it to be first-rate," says Blessing. "That's where the titanium comes in."


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SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- GenCorp Inc. ("GenCorp" or the "Company") (NYSE: GY) today announced that it entered into a $100 million subordinated delayed draw term loan credit facility.
GenCorp intends to use borrowings under the new subordinated credit facility for a variety of purposes which may include refinancing of existing debt, repurchasing common equity, working capital and general corporate purposes.
In general, borrowings under the new subordinated credit facility bear interest at a rate equal to the sum of (x) the greater of LIBOR and 1.00% per annum plus (y) 8.50%, or in the case of base rate loans, the base rate as it is defined in the credit agreement governing the new subordinated credit facility plus 7.50%.
About GenCorp
GenCorp is a leading technology-based manufacturer of aerospace and defense products and systems with a real estate segment that includes activities related to the entitlement, sale and leasing of the Company's excess real estate assets. Additional information about the Company can be obtained by visiting the Company's website at http://www.GenCorp.com.
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Investors: Kathy Redd, chief financial officer 916.355.2361
Media: Glenn Mahone, vice president, communications 202.302.9941
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