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Discover the "undiscovered" south of France, on the Mediterranean, between Provence and Spain. Lieu Delice (Pleasant Place) is a pretty Languedoc holiday rental for weekly rental in Roquebrun, (known as the "Little Nice"), Herault, Languedoc, France. Roquebrun is a very picturesque village (pop. 550) in Haut Languedoc Natural Park and is renowned for its warmer winters and Mimosa festival, on the Orb river - good for fishing, swimming, and canoeing. Nearest airports - Carcassonne, Montpellier, Perpignan. TGV railway station 25 minutes drive in Beziers. |
Discover the "undiscovered" south of France, on the Mediterranean,
between Provence and Spain. Lieu Delice (Pleasant Place) is
a medieval village house available for weekly holiday rental in Roquebrun, (known
as the "Little Nice"), Herault,
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Lieu Delice in beautiful Roquebrun |
DETAILS OF ACCOMMODATION Picturesque Roquebrun overlooks the splendid Orb valley, with its river winding through woods and vineyards. The house is in the center of the village with a small parking area nearby. Lieu Delice Entrance is directly into a bright hallway with to the right a large room with shower, large closet, washing machine, and separate WC; on the opposite side of the hallway stairs lead down to a storage area (not for clients use). The hallway leads directly into a living/dining room. There is dining table for 6, sofa and TV / VCR with a large open fireplace.French doors open out onto a balcony that stretches the length of the house, with superb views of the surrounding landscape, consisting of gardens, olive groves, and hills opposite. The American kitchen, is equipped with dishwasher, fridge-freezer, combination electric and gas cooker, with extractor fan. Back in the main hallway, stairs lead up to a landing, off which are 3 bedrooms consisting of 2 twin bedrooms, and one double bedroom. The rooms are bright and airy. There is a modern bathroom with power shower, WC and washbasin. |
Living dining room with fireplace Well equipped kitchen Balcony with superb views |
Bathroom with power shower Twin blue bedroom Master bedroom |
Roquebrun ABOUT THE AREA Roquebrun, is sometimes referred to as the "Little Nice" of Languedoc. It has a microclimate, which makes life warmer in the winter months (a mimosa festival in January). The village cascades down a hillside, with at the top the ruins of a castle, which is next to a glorious Mediterranean garden, with a large variety of flowers, cacti, as well as walks that lead off into the wild countryside beyond. The picturesque village streets, are highlighted by the church and the arched gateways, and lead down to the main road, which is lined with restaurants and looks over the bubbling river Orb. The river is perfect for canoeing or bathing. The village has a grocery store as well as a number of excellent restaurants. The river is perfect for swimming and canoeing Nearby sights and villages include St Chinian, which has a colorful Sunday market, as well as numerous restaurants; Fontcaude Abbey; and the Gorges d'Heric, with its towering cliffs of rock and stunning views. Thirty minutes drive is the cathedral city of Beziers with a charming old quarter, and famed for its bull fighting and festivals during the Summer months. Ten minutes further are the endless beaches of the Mediterranean - be it Cap d'Agde with its naturist beaches, or Valras with beaches for all tastes! ACCESS International airports are close at hand. For visitors coming from London - Ryanair flies into Carcassonne (60 minutes). Montpellier is about 75 minutes drive and Toulouse is just over 2 hours. The railway (TGV) goes into Beziers where at the station cars can be rented. |
LIEU DELICE WITH BALCONY SLEEPS 6 Payment is based on Euros and $ value; the £ is only approximate. Electricity and Firewood are not included for the Fall and Winter seasons.


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26 Things We Learned From the 'Batman: The Movie' Commentary
Commentary Commentary By Jeremy Kirk on July 19, 2012 | Comments (3)You just knew that with all of FSR's Batman coverage this week, we wanted to tackle a commentary worthy of the caped crusader's name. Of course, we already handled Christopher Nolan's sole DVD commentary contribution, and anything Joel Schumacher has to say has to be heard first-hand to be believed. Sure, we could have gone to Tim Burton for this one, but his track record on talking about his own movie is a big goose egg thus far. We didn't want to chance it, so we went back, way back, to the swingin' 60s and the POW, BLAM, and SPLAT of the colorful classic Batman: The Movie. Originally intended to be the TV series pilot, the film ended up getting a theatrical release between the series' first and second seasons. It would continue on for three seasons total, but that classic "Batman" series would continue in the hearts of little boy wonders and batgirls all over the world for decades to come. Even now, the fandom behind this series is undeniable. Thanks to the never-ending wonders of DVD and Blu-Ray, we have this movie in all of its campy goodness. What's more, we have Batman and Robin themselves, Adam West and Burt Ward, providing appropriately quirky commentary. Check out what they had to say right here. Holy Feature Length Amazement, Batman!
What Film Serials and TV Shows Taught Us About Batman
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on July 10, 2012 | Comments (3)Enduring cultural figures like Batman endure precisely because of the slight but notable changes they incur over time. Batman has had a long history in the moving image, and while the character has maintained both the central conceit of being a crime-fighting detective, the cinematic Batman of seventy years ago bears little resemblance to the Batman we're familiar with today. The character and his myth have been interpreted with variation by a multitude of creative persons other than Bob Kane and Bill Finger. In the moving image, Batman has been embodied by a range of actors including Robert Lowery, Adam West, and George Clooney, and Batman has been realized by directors and showrunners prone to various tastes and aesthetic interpretations like William Dozier and Christopher Nolan. While Batman is perhaps best-known by a non-comic-astute mass culture through the many blockbuster feature films made about him, including this summer's hotly anticipated The Dark Knight Rises, the character's cinematic origins are rooted in the long-dead format of the movie serial. Batman first leapt off the page in a 15-part serial made in 1943 titled Batman and another six years later titled Batman and Robin. These serials did not influence Batman's later cinematic iterations realized by Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher as much as they inspired Batman's representation on television. Batman's presence in film serials and on television have had a decisive and important impact in terms of how mass audiences perceive the Batman of feature films. At the same time, these serials […]
Exploring the Twilight Zone #8: Time Enough At Last
Exploring the Twilight Zone By Scott Beggs on June 15, 2011 | Comments (3)With the entire original run of The Twilight Zone available to watch instantly, we're partnering with Twitch Film to cover all 156 episodes. Are you brave enough to watch them all with us? The Twilight Zone Episode #8 – "Time Enough At Last" (airdate 11/20/59) The Plot: A lover of books can't get a break. At home, his wife henpecks him for reading, and at work they expect him to work instead of enjoying his hobby. Fortunately, a large explosion is about to give him all the free time in the world. The Goods: It would be difficult to come up with a single episode that encapsulates the themes and skill of this show, but "Time Enough At Last" would undoubtedly make a short list with ease. It is a titan of the series with an unrelentingly pathetic main character played with nuance and vinegar by Burgess Meredith (who is miles away from his cigarette filter, Penguin sneer and his mat-chewing, Rocky-training Mick). It's a nice reminder that a man remembered for his characters was an Oscar nominee. Meredith disappears into the limp artifice and coke-bottle glasses of Henry Bemis – a man who wants nothing more than a quiet place and a few million hours to enjoy words on a page. Granted, he's pretty terrible at his job as a bank teller, but he's still dressed down with gusto by his boss (Vaughn Taylor), and heading home offers no respite because his bitch of a wife (there are more […]
36 Films: Grumpy Old Men (1993)
Features By Adam Charles on August 19, 2010 | Be the First To CommentFor 36 days straight, we'll be exploring the famous 36 Dramatic Situations by presenting a film that exemplifies each one. From family killing family to prisoners in need of asylum, we brush off the 19th century list in order to remember that it's still incredibly relevant today.
Whether you're seeking a degree in Literature, love movies, or just love seeing things explode, our feature should have something for everyone. If it doesn't, please don't hide a dead fish in our backseat.
Part 11 of the 36-part series takes a look at "Rivalry of Kinsmen" with Grumpy Old Men.
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Dynamic Data Center Tool Kit Enables Managed Hosting and On-Demand Virtualized Infrastructure Services Based on System Center and Windows Server 2008/Hyper-V
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This case study talks about MaximumASP that deals in providing Windows based web hosting and managed IT services to its customers. The organization mentioned in the case study delivers on-demand scalability, low costs and high availability through effective server services. With the help and control of Microsoft Dynamic Data Center Tool Kit, this organization provides managed IT services and Web hosting services that help their clients in meeting the changing requirement of businesses. The kit mentioned and discussed in this case study helps hosting providers build managed Hosting services and On-demand virtualized infrastructure powered by System Center and Windows Server 2008/Hyper-V/IIS. This kit offers various benefits to customers including high availability clustering, horizontal and vertical scalability, smart monitoring, regular backups, and bigger support. This case study discusses MaximumASP that is an expert of Microsoft technologies with its main focus on Microsoft's developer ecosystem for their hosting needs. This paper mentions Hyper-V based visualization of environment for the organizations' customers to decide features they need in perspective of cloud based services. This paper talks about the infrastructure created by the company that was based on Windows Server 2008 and System Center known as MaxV. With the help of MaxV, MaximumASP arranges on-demand virtual sensors that feature basic visibility into the Hyper-V, cluster, networking, and storage infrastructure. The company provides improved uptime to all customers with the help of Windows Server 2008 and System Center based infrastructure.
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The Lens Man Behind the Music Fan: Andrew Youssef
During a gig two Saturdays ago at The Joint in Las Vegas, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor had a FaceTime session with a fan that couldn't make it to the show. The man in question is Andrew Youssef, a terminally ill concert photographer, music critic, and fan-turned-friend of the industrial rock band. Read on to learn more about Andrew and his story. -
Poster Art by Tara McPherson
New York-based artist Tara McPherson has been creating art in different mediums for over a decade. If you're a fan, you've probably seen them all---paintings, posters, toys, prints, illustrations for magazines, and all sorts of merchandise clad in her designs. You might have had the opportunity to go to one of her exhibits and ask for her autograph, while gushing with adoration and marveling at her talent. -
November Workshops and Events in Lomography Gallery Store Singapore ended about 1 year ago
This month, we're seeing purple with the Lubitel 166+ & the new LomoChrome Purple film, and going Extremely Wide and Incredibly Close on the Diana F+! Not only that, Lomographic Society International turns 21 and we're celebrating it with a party and a scavenger hunt to boot, before ending the month with a bang with the launch of the much-anticipated Lomography Blue Hour Sessions! -
Lomography Blue Hour Sessions at Lomography Gallery Store Singapore ended 9 months ago
Lomography Gallery Store Singapore presents the Blue Hour Sessions, a 6-part series featuring collaborations with a roster of local bands and graphic artists to press special edition, limited release EPs with live and unplugged recordings, culminating in a series of monthly Blue Hour gigs and exhibitions! -
Midweek Music Video: Heart-Shaped Box by Nirvana
Nirvana is long gone but never forgotten. -
Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl & Krist Novoselic Of Nirvana Wearing Funky Sweaters And Scarves As Skirts
Never mind that they look like random cross-dressers. Come as you are! -
NXNE at the LGS Toronto
This year, NXNE brought Kentron, Benjamin Boles, DJ Fusion, & Ausar Rah Black Hawk to the LGS Toronto and filled the store with some great vibes! Check out some photos after the jump! -
Friday Movie Flashback: Almost Famous
You'll love "being in the 70's." You'll enjoy having a sneak peek into the life of an up and coming band. -
Live In-Store Sessions: NXNE at the LGS Toronto, June 14-15
NXNE 2013 is back in town for its 19th year and once again, the Lomography Gallery Store Toronto is lucky enough to host some rad DJs and bands live for some in-store sessions this Friday and Saturday, June 14-15. There's nothing like live music to make the store even cozier than it is, so drop by this weekend to snap a photo and give them a listen while you shop! -
Midweek Music Video: Mr. Brightside by The Killers
The music video for The Killers' debut single takes us to the Burlesque era. -
A Tribute to The Doors
Lomography offers a tribute to one of the most phenomenal bands in the the history of rock 'n roll. -
★ Film Swap: Musical Obsessions
If you are a big fan of music and photography, and want to make a little tribute to your idols, this is a way to mix this two big loves of your life: Make a music-based film-swap! -
UK CitySlicker Claire: Live Music Scene Leeds
Living in Leeds, I feel lucky to be able to attend a vast array of music events. These aren't confined to just the big famous bands however, and some of my favorite gigs recently have been smaller unsigned acts. -
London 2012 and Hyde Park Live Site
In London 2012, you didn't have to have tickets to an event to be part of the action - there were fun free events all over the city for people to get involved. -
Festivals in Film: Tramlines 2012, Sheffield, UK
This is the first year I have been to Sheffield city center's Tramlines Festival. I went for a friend's birthday and there was a nice big group of us. This feels so different compared to all the other festivals I have been to - read on to find out why. -
A Night Spent in a Dream – or: Photo Exhibition by Takeshi Suga and Concerts at Lomography Gallery Store Berlin
In Berlin, this year's summer reminds of a tropical greenhouse with humid heat and thundery cloudbursts in the evenings. Lately, one of these diluvian floods happend to see a party that was up to every trick at Lomography Gallery Store Berlin. On schedule: The opening of a Lomographic exhibition by the Japanese photographer Takeshi Suga, great bands, an epic thunderstorm and party till midnight. -
Lomo Amigo Tushar Dhanawade : Music Maniac Shoots With the LC-A+
What happens when Music mixes with Film? It produces sparks, colors and amazing pictures. This month from India, we have a Lomo Amigo who does just that, fusing music with color through his LC-A+! -
Photographers Take the Music World by Storm
Just as New Yorker's Jessie Wender was inspired by the music video "I Fink U Freeky," so too was I inspired by the awesome music video done by a, first and foremost, photographer, to create this article! So, what are you waiting for...10 great music videos done and directed by 10 prolific photographers await you after the jump! -
PYHOF: Music Videos Shot With the Super 8
Forget too-good-to-be-true graphics and special effects - the scratchy, grainy appeal of film adds an unmistakable charm to music videos. For this week's PYHOF, we prepared a list of music videos taken with film - hopefully it inspires you to make your own analogue videos! -
LomoLocation Callout: Music Festivals!
Calling all Lomographers! Music Festivals are what we're looking for!


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The world's most Instragrammed destinations for 2014
Art galleries, theme parks and sports venues named planet's premium geo-tagged locations
iReport: Insta-geisha! Kyoto's traditional beauties meet Facebook app
iReporter shows how to make geishas look even more enticing than they already do with Instagram
Sexy couple, great photos: 'Follow Me To' hits Hong Kong
Hong Kong hopes to attract big-spending Russians with the famous couple behind the viral Instagram project
Topless travel photos trending on Instagram
How three friends messing about on their travels became a slightly risque Instagram trend
First 'Instagram hotel' gives free stays for popularity
With designated "selfie space" and in-room media hubs, Sydney's 1888 lets guests with 10,000 Instagram followers stay for free
How to take good Instagram photos
CNN's Jethro Mullen has nearly 800,000 Instagram followers. Here's how he does it
Pocket darkroom: Hong Kong's first Instagram exhibit
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Reviewed Braised Calamari Stuffed with Shrimp, Spinach, and Herbs
May 31, 2011 in Food Network Community Toolbox on FoodNetwork.com
"I'm sure this recipe is great as-is, but I couldn't help tweaking it right out of the gate. I used bay scallops instead of squid in the stuffing & added fine diced red bell pepper. I also added 3 large basil leaves, 1 tablespoon of oregano & fine diced red bell pepper to the sauce. The presentation is amazing – I'm fortunate to have 7-9" tubes ""
Reviewed Roasted Branzino with Green Olive Couscous
May 30, 2011 in Food Network Community Toolbox on FoodNetwork.com
"I'm a big fan of Tyler's, but I hated this recipe. All I tasted was grapefruit - completely overpowered the dish.""


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For 35 years, In Touch Ministries has been helping people all over the world to grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ. And we couldn't do it without you. Without your prayers and support. Without your trust.
Our goal, in the words of Dr. Stanley, is to get the gospel to "as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, as clearly as possible, as irresistibly as possible, through the power of the Holy Spirit to the glory of God." Here are some ways we're doing that.
The Messenger, a hand-held device powered by solar energy, provides groundbreaking opportunities for us to deliver Christian teaching in places previously inaccessible.
Join Dr. Stanley in giving thanks to God and praying for our continuing work in 2013.


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Located 33 kilometers off shore from Ranong, Koh Phayam is famous for both its long fine white sandy beaches and dense area of forest. There are a big community live on there and help taking care of the island. Its sea along the coastline is filled by beautiful coral reefs. The most stunning one are on the west side of the island where there are bungalows offers for visitors as well. The best beach to lie on is Hat Kham which is on the southern part which is home to pure white sand in peaceful environment. Another popular activity here is watching migrant birds that will migrate here during winter between November to March.
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To get to Ko Phayam, visitors can charter boats from Ranong Pier for about 1,000 baht per trip. Visitors can also charter speedboats from Ko Phayam Resort. Prices range from 2,000 to 4,000 baht, depending on the size of the boat. Reservations can be made by calling 0 7781 2297, 0 1323 0436
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Casting Couch: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Gets More High-Profile Offers, Julia Roberts and Mark Ruffalo Team Up For HBO, and More
Casting Couch By Nathan Adams on January 7, 2013 | Comments (1)Today was basically Godzilla day on the Internet. All sorts of news regarding Legendary Pictures' reboot of the big green guy's film series broke, and some of it involves casting. THR broke the news that Joseph Gordon-Levitt was being looked at to star, but one of their writers, Borys Kit, was then quick to point out that his potential involvement in the film is long dead. Variety writer Justin Kroll then jumped in with the news that a few names that are still possibilities for the project are Henry Cavill, Scoot McNairy, and Caleb Landry Jones. All of this news comes with a special thanks to /Film, who compiled all the chatter into a tight little narrative. Even though things between Gordon-Levitt and Godzilla didn't work out, don't let that make you think that he's going to go an entire week without being attached to a high profile project. In more Gordon-Levitt news, Deadline has word that the in-demand actor has just signed on to play a big role in Robert Rodriguez's Sin City sequel, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. Apparently he's going to be playing Johnny, a role that was meant to go to Johnny Depp at one point, and that is said to be a core character in the overlapping parts of the film's story lines. This comes at the same time as news that Gordon-Levitt's possible involvement in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy isn't going to end up happening, which is essential information if you happen to be exhaustively journaling all […]
I'm not any sort of sports guy at all. Corner me in a bar and try to talk to me about last night's big game and I'm going to stare back at you blankly and stupidly. Invite me to your Super Bowl party and I'm going to politely decline for fear of dying of boredom. But even I understand the appeal of baseball: the lazy pace, the fresh-cut grass, the hot dogs and peanuts, the crack of the bat. Hollywood has a long tradition of movies that have tapped into this seemingly universal love, but ever since it was released, the Kevin Costner-starring Field of Dreams has been considered by most to be the king of the mountain. And while pretty much everyone has seen Field of Dreams at some point in their lives, or at least understands that it's the source of the, "If you build it, they will come," quote, almost no one I know has ever seen Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's 2008 film Sugar. It got a brief release in New York and L.A., and then was shunted off to DVD without playing for anyone else. That's a shame, because this tale about a young Dominican prospect trying to improve his station in the world by making it to the majors is my favorite film about the game.
'Half Nelson' and 'Sugar' Directors Fleck and Boden Will Send You 'Hate Mail'
In Development By Nathan Adams on September 30, 2011 | Be the First To CommentWriting and directing duo Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden stunned me with the left hook that was their 2006 film Half Nelson. That project was a Ryan Gosling-starring film about a drug-addicted teacher trying to touch the lives of inner city children. Then they knocked me on my ass with the quick uppercut that was their 2008 film Sugar, which was a look at the life of a man from the Dominican Republic who is recruited to come to the U.S. and play professional baseball, but who doesn't quite find it to be the glamorous experience one might expect. After that, they made It's Kind of a Funny Story in 2010, and that saw me regaining my wits and getting back to my feet, because it was kind of a crappy movie. So, here I am, standing here dazed, waiting for Fleck and Boden's next punch, what's it going to be? According to Variety, it will be a drama called Hate Mail, which follows the intersecting lives of a series of Manhattanites who have all had relationship-ruining experiences regarding the receipt of hate mail. That's about all of the information out there regarding this film so far, but it's news to me just because of the filmmakers attached. I thought Half Nelson and Sugar put these two right up there with Ramin Bahrani when it comes to modern, minimalist filmmakers, so I'm hoping that It's Kind of a Funny Story was just a momentary misstep. I guess Hate Mail will […]
'It's Kind Of A Funny Story' Trailer Is Full of Indie Goodness
Movie News By Scott Beggs on July 14, 2010 | Comments (7)From the use of the 500 Days of Summer font to the quirky premise and the extensive use of Ida Maria's "Oh My God," in the trailer, It's Kind of a Funny Story could very well be the indie comedy that is contractually obligated to come out every year since Little Miss Sunshine had so much success. That's not a knock on the film which features Zack Galifiniakis and is directed by Half Nelson helmers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. In fact, the trailer makes the movie look like a creative, sweet march down the insane asylum. Plus, you should watch it just to get Zack Galifianakis's advise on picking up chicks.
Print to Projector: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Features By Scott Beggs on January 23, 2010 | Comments (2)Welcome to Print to Projector, where we feign literacy in order to suggest what we'd like to see slapped onto the big screen. This week, we look at a high school mystery of epic proportions.
Galifiniakis Has a Dramatic 'Funny Story' For You
Casting Couch By Scott Beggs on September 16, 2009 | Comments (4)Can Zach Galifianakis successfully change his image from a crazy slacker to a crazy slacker who is in a mental institution? And, more importantly, will Nurse Ratchet be there?
Sundance Review: 'Sugar' Can't Survive on Heart Alone
Features By Neil Miller on January 25, 2008 | Be the First To CommentFrom the directors of 'Half Nelson' comes a slowly paced drama about a Dominican baseball player coming to America.
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Lowongan Kerja PT. Arutmin Indonesia
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About PT Arutmin Indonesia
PT Arutmin Indonesia is one of the major coal producing and exporting companies in Indonesia. Arutmin signed coal mining contract with the Government of Indonesia in 1981. It known as coal contract of works (CCoW). Company manages five mines are Senakin, Satui, Mulia, Asam – Asam and Batulicin and an international coal export terminal. Those are located at South Kalimantan.
At Senakin mine, Satui mine, and Batulicin mine hold world-class Bituminous deposits while Mulia and Asam Asam mine holds extensive Sub-Bituminous deposits.
Arutmin's strong production and sales performance has allowed rapid growth more than 20 years of operation. is now well-positioned in the global market and poised to expand domestically. Extensive reserves provide a natural competitive advantage but the key to persistent healthy cash flows is sound management of financial, technical, and social issues. The workforce of Indonesian, community representative and expatriate are streamlined. Its combination of global management experience and local sensitivity ensures that international best-practices of environment management and community development are maintained.
Arutmin's strategic advantages – extensive and quality coal reserves, operational efficiency, marketing strengths, and competitive workforce capabilities – position it securely to maintain its healthy performance. Remains well able to manage global market conditions to best advantage. The company's combined advantages form a secure base from which management can launch initiatives to capture future opportunities.
Company Contact
Jobs Available
Arutmin Indonesia, we are looking for people who want to grow with us, work well with International Standard System, and take chances to be the best in the industry.
We value diversity and provide competitive remuneration and career development opportunities for our people.
If you want a challenging career and grow with us together, you are fit with our organization.
PT Arutmin Indonesia now is seeking the candidates who are interested to learn and gaining hands-on experience in coal mining industry as follow :
- Electrical Engineering (EL)
- Account Payable Officer (AP-O)
Jobs Description
Electrical Engineering (EL)
- Min Bachelor Degree (S1) from reputable university majoring in Electrical Engineering.
- At least 2 years of working experiences especially in coal mining company is an added value.
- Fresh graduate with outstanding performance is welcome to apply.
- Familiar with Conveyors Drive System, Barges & Port Facilities.
- Independent, self motivated and hard worker
- Familiar with computer (MS Word, Excel)
- Possess good communication skill, both in Bahasa and English.
- Team player.
- Showed high integrity and commitment to PTAI standards in environment, safety and business ethic.
Account Payable Officer (AP-O)
- Min Bachelor Degree (S1) from reputable university majoring in Economy or Administration.
- At least 1 year experience in the field of finance & accounting.
- Possess good knowledge in accounting, account payable & recieveable.
- Posses good knowledge about domestic & national accounting regulation
- Familiar with computer (MS Word, Excel, Power Point)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, ideally in both English and Indonesian to liaise with internal/external contacts.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Able to work in minimum supervision, willing to work hard and under pressure, having high integrity, dedicated, and team work oriented.
- Have a high commitment to PTAI standards in environment, safety, business ethic and good corporate governance.
- Posses high level of accuracy.
Sites Reference
- www.arutmin.com
Submit Application
Please send your application and resume in English, copy of ID Card, recent photograph and put the position code at the subject of your email to :
- Closing date 14 May 2014 (AP-O) and 15 May 2014 (EL).
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COT Report Reveals Significant Increase In Yen Net Short Position
- The dollar/yen rate (USD/JPY) once again rallied close to the highest level seen since around April this year, during trading late last week. Further monetary easing rhetoric from Shinzo Abe, the leader of the LDP (Liberal Democratic party) provided a catalyst for a resumption of the recent Japanese yen selling.
- The USD/JPY has been a "hot hand" over recent weeks with the JPY amongst the most popular currencies for shorting. The latest COT report (commitment of traders) data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission revealed that futures market participants have increased the net open short yen position by around 50%, worth a net $12.2 billion. The report this week showed a net position at -79,466 versus the -51,389 reading on the prior week, the largest net short JPY (CME) position this year and bigger than the -67,622 figure registered in March.
- Traders may be tempted to short the USD/JPY at current so called "overbought" levels, if referencing technical indicators such as the RSI, but the price action and additional near-term technical considerations do not yet point towards an obvious yen corrective strength shift in our opinion.
- The USD/JPY is essentially trading between significant technical levels at present with an element of technical traders possibly sitting on the sidelines waiting for a suitable pullback to support, or move higher to established resistance, as a catalyst.
- The key potential support area we are monitoring, on any sustained downside move, is located around the 80.70 area (see previous resistance = potential support).
- Aggressive USD/JPY bulls may be considering a break above recent highs as a trigger to for longs; however, a descending trend line is located around 70 pips above the closing dollar/yen level from Friday, which may see an element of resistance if hit on any sustained move above recent highs. Further to this is the significant 15/3/12 84.17 swing high which was the start of a near 700 pip drop when last hit.
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Are You An Out Of Work Musician? Want a Gig Just For the Money?
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Do you wake up, smoke a bowl, bum a cigarette, drink a beer, eat some corn pops, play guitar, watch Judge Judy, Matlock and Oprah while "brainstorming" your million dollar ideas wearing dirty socks and wishing somebody would just pay your rent so you could concentrate on developing your unrecognized genius? You're probably either a blogger or an out of work musician. If it's the latter, join a band that's in it for the money. How bout this one, ripped directly from Craigslist for your benefit...
"We are seeking an experienced Singer/Frontman (Guitar Playing a +++) for a new working cover band. Gig's will be starting in mid-late May. We are all in our mid-late 20's, and would prefer someone in the same age group. We are all very determined, reliable, and well versed on different genres. The main goal of this band is to be out playing as much as possible. Someone with experience keeping the crowd going would be nice....You're welcome
Some of the bands we are playing songs from are: RHCP, Van Morrison, Dire Straits, Guns n Roses, CCR, Phish, Sublime, Bob Marley, plus alot more Alternitive/Reggae/Top 40.
Please be professional/reliable/ready to work. We're planning on spending the next couple of weeks with heavy practice getting the first round of songs ready. We have a practice space in Boca. "
Contact for more info. Reply to: firstname.lastname@example.com
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New submitter Tim the Gecko (745081) writes Comcast has announced 1Tb/s of Internet facing, native IPv6 traffic, with more than 30% deployment to customers. With Facebook, Google/YouTube, and Wikipedia up to speed, it looks we are past the "chicken and egg" stage. IPv6 adoption by other carriers is looking better too with AT&T at 20% of their network IPv6 enabled, Time Warner at 10%, and Verizon Wireless at 50%. The World IPv6 Launch site has measurements of global IPv6 adoption.
alphadogg (971356) writes with news that the SSA has joined the long list of federal agencies with giant failed IT projects. From the article: "Six years ago the Social Security Administration embarked on an aggressive plan to replace outdated computer systems overwhelmed by a growing flood of disability claims. Nearly $300 million later, the new system is nowhere near ready and agency officials are struggling to salvage a project racked by delays and mismanagement, according to an internal report commissioned by the agency. In 2008, Social Security said the project was about two to three years from completion. Five years later, it was still two to three years from being done, according to the report by McKinsey and Co., a management consulting firm. Today, with the project still in the testing phase, the agency can't say when it will be completed or how much it will cost.
New submitter David Hames (3763525) writes Would you like to test drive the newest release of the Macintosh operating system? Apple is opening up the beta for Mac OS X Yosemite starting Thursday to the first million people who sign up. Beta users won't be able to access such promised Yosemite features such as the ability to make or receive your iPhone calls or text messages on your Mac, turn on your iPhone hotspot feature from your Mac, or "Handoff" the last thing you were doing on your iOS 8 device to your Mac and vice versa. A new iCloud Drive feature is also off-limits, while any Spotlight search suggestions are U.S.-based only. Don't expect all your Mac apps to run either. Ars has a preview of Yosemite.
An anonymous reader writes Bromium Labs analyzed public vulnerabilities and exploits from the first six months of 2014. The research determined that Internet Explorer vulnerabilities have increased more than 100 percent since 2013, surpassing Java and Flash vulnerabilities. Web browsers have always been a favorite avenue of attack, but we are now seeing that hackers are not only getting better at attacking Internet Explorer, they are doing it more frequently.
An anonymous reader writes Phishing emails are without a doubt one of the biggest security issues consumers and businesses face today. Cybercriminals understand that we are a generation of clickers and they use this to their advantage. They will take the time to create sophisticated phishing emails because they understand that today users can tell-apart spam annoyances from useful email, however they still find it difficult identifying phishing emails, particularly when they are tailored to suit each recipient individually. Fake emails are so convincing and compelling that they fool 10% of recipients into clicking on the malicious link. To put that into context a legitimate marketing department at a FTSE 100 company typically expects less than a 2% click rate on their advertising campaigns. So, how are the cybercriminals out-marketing the marketing experts?
First time accepted submitter Carly Page writes When asked for its response to Edward Snowden's claims that "Dropbox is hostile to privacy", Dropbox told The INQUIRER that users concerned about privacy should add their own encryption. The firm warned however that if users do, not all of the service's features will work. Head of Product at Dropbox for Business Ilya Fushman says: "We have data encrypted on our servers. We think of encryption beyond that as a users choice. If you look at our third-party developer ecosystem you'll find many client-side encryption apps....It's hard to do things like rich document rendering if they're client-side encrypted. Search is also difficult, we can't index the content of files. Finally, we need users to understand that if they use client-side encryption and lose the password, we can't then help them recover those files."
theodp writes: Back in 2012, Computerworld blasted Vice President Joe Biden for his ignorance of the H-1B temporary work visa program. But Joe's got his H-1B story and he's sticking to it, characterizing the visa program earlier this month in a speech to the National Governors Association as "apprenticeships" of sorts that companies provide to foreign workers to expand the Information Technology industry only after proving there are no qualified Americans to fill the jobs. Biden said he also learned from his talks with tech's top CEOs that 200,000 of the jobs that companies provide each year to highly-skilled H-1B visa holders could in fact be done by Americans with no more than a two-year community college degree.
MojoKid writes: Intel just launched their new SSD 2500 Pro series solid state drive, the follow-up to last year's SSD 1500 Pro series, which targets corporate and small-business clients. The drive shares much of its DNA with some of Intel's consumer-class drives, but the Pro series cranks things up a few notches with support for advanced security and management features, low power states, and an extended management toolset. In terms of performance, the Intel SSD 2500 Pro isn't class-leading in light of many enthusiast-class drives but it's no slouch either. Intel differentiates the 2500 Pro series by adding support for vPro remote-management and hardware-based self-encryption. The 2500 Pro series supports TCG (Trusted Computing Group) Opal 2.0 features and is Microsoft eDrive capable as well. Intel also offers an administration tool for easy management of the drive. With the Intel administration tool, users can reset the PSID (physical presence security ID), though the contents of the drive will be wiped. Sequential reads are rated at up to 540MB/s, sequential writes at up to 480MB/s, with 45K – 80K random read / write IOps.
chicksdaddy (814965) writes The Security Ledger reports on newly published research from the firm zScaler that reveals CNN's iPhone application transmits user login session information in clear text. The security flaw could leave users of the application vulnerable to having their login credential snooped by malicious actors on the same network or connected to the same insecure wifi hotspot. That's particularly bad news if you're one of CNN's iReporters — citizen journalists — who use the app to upload photos, video and other text as they report on breaking news events. According to a zScaler analysis, CNN's app for iPhone exposes user credentials in the clear both during initial setup of the account and in subsequent mobile sessions. The iPad version of the CNN app is not affected, nor is the CNN mobile application for Android. A spokesman for CNN said the company had a fix ready and was working with Apple to have it approved and released to the iTunes AppStore.
klapaucjusz writes: The EFF has released an experimental router firmware designed make it easy to deploy open (password-less) access points in a secure manner. The EFF's firmware is based on the CeroWRT fork of OpenWRT, but appears to remove some of its more advanced routing features. The EFF is asking for help to further develop the firmware. They want the open access point to co-exist on the same router as your typical private and secured access point. They want the owner to be able to share bandwidth, but with a cap, so guests don't degrade service for the owner. They're also looking to develop a network queueing, a minimalist web UI, and an auto-update mechanism. The EFF has also released the beta version of a plug-in called Privacy Badger for Firefox and Chrome that will prevent online advertisers from tracking you.
alphadogg writes A presentation on a low-budget method to unmask users of a popular online privacy tool Tor will no longer go ahead at the Black Hat security conference early next month. The talk was nixed by the legal counsel with Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute after a finding that materials from researcher Alexander Volynkin were not approved for public release, according to a notice on the conference's website. Tor project leader Roger Dingledine said, "I think I have a handle on what they did, and how to fix it. ... Based on our current plans, we'll be putting out a fix that relays can apply that should close the particular bug they found. The bug is a nice bug, but it isn't the end of the world." Tor's developers were "informally" shown materials about the bug, but never saw any details about what would be presented in the talk.
Ben Blair is CTO of MarkITx, a company that brokers used commercial IT gear. This gives him an excellent overview of the marketplace -- not just what companies are willing to buy used, but also what they want to sell as they buy new (or newer) equipment. Ben's main talking point in this interview is that hardware has become so commoditized that in a world where most enterprise software can be virtualized to run across multiple servers, it no longer matters if you have the latest hardware technology; that two older servers can often do the job of one new one -- and for less money, too. So, he says, you should make sure you buy new hardware only when necessary, not just because of the "Ooh... shiny!" factor" (Alternate Video Link)
rjmarvin writes: Microsoft Research is testing a new method for predicting errors and bugs while developers write code: biometrics. By measuring a developer's eye movements, physical and mental characteristics as they code, the researchers tracked alertness and stress levels to predict the difficulty of a given task with respect to the coder's abilities. In a paper entitled "Using Psycho-Physiological Measures to Assess Task Difficulty in Software Development," the researchers summarized how they strapped an eye tracker, an electrodermal sensor and an EEG sensor to 15 developers as they programmed for various tasks. Biometrics predicted task difficulty for a new developer 64.99% of the time. For a subsequent tasks with the same developer, the researchers found biometrics to be 84.38% accurate. They suggest using the information to mark places in code that developers find particularly difficult, and then reviewing or refactoring those sections later.
New submitter rongten (756490) writes I am managing a computer lab composed of various kinds of Linux workstations, from small desktops to powerful workstations with plenty of RAM and cores. The users' $HOME is NFS mounted, and they either access via console (no user switch allowed), ssh or x2go. In the past, the powerful workstations were reserved to certain power users, but now even "regular" students may need to have access to high memory machines for some tasks. Is there a sort of resource management that would allow the following tasks? To forbid a same user to log graphically more than once (like UserLock); to limit the amount of ssh sessions (i.e. no user using distcc and spamming the rest of the machines, or even worse, running in parallel); to give priority to the console user (i.e. automatically renicing remote users jobs and restricting their memory usage); and to avoid swapping and waiting (i.e. all the users trying to log into the latest and greatest machine, so have a limited amount of logins proportional to the capacity of the machine). The system being put in place uses Fedora 20, and LDAP PAM authentication; it is Puppet-managed, and NFS based. In the past I tried to achieve similar functionality via cron jobs, login scripts, ssh and nx management, and queuing system — but it is not an elegant solution, and it is hacked a lot. Since I think these requirements should be pretty standard for a computer lab, I am surprised to see that I cannot find something already written for it. Do you know of a similar system, preferably open source? A commercial solution could be acceptable as well.
New submitter I Ate A Candle (3762149) writes Tails OS, the Tor-reliant privacy-focused operating system made famous by Edward Snowden, contains a number of zero-day vulnerabilities that could be used to take control of the OS and execute code remotely. At least that's according to zero-day exploit seller Exodus Intelligence, which counts DARPA amongst its customer base. The company plans to tell the Tails team about the issues "in due time", said Aaron Portnoy, co-founder and vice president of Exodus, but it isn't giving any information on a disclosure timeline. This means users of Tails are in danger of being de-anonymised. Even version 1.1, which hit public release today (22 July 2014), is affected. Snowden famously used Tails to manage the NSA files. The OS can be held on a USB stick and leaves no trace once removed from the drive. It uses the Tor network to avoid identification of the user, but such protections may be undone by the zero-day exploits Exodus holds.
alphadogg (971356) writes "In its quest to help enterprises seek out and neutralize all threats to their Wi-Fi networks, AirMagnet is now looking to the skies. In a free software update to its AirMagnet Enterprise product last week, the Wi-Fi security division of Fluke Networks added code specifically crafted to detect the Parrot AR Drone, a popular unmanned aerial vehicle that costs a few hundred dollars and can be controlled using a smartphone or tablet. Drones themselves don't pose any special threat to Wi-Fi networks, and AirMagnet isn't issuing air pistols to its customers to shoot them down. The reason the craft are dangerous is that they can be modified to act as rogue access points and sent into range of a victim's wireless network, potentially breaking into a network to steal data."
redletterdave writes Dan Petro, a security analyst for the Bishop Fox IT consulting firm, built a proof of concept device that's able to hack into any Google Chromecasts nearby to project Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up," or any other video a prankster might choose. The "Rickmote," which is built on top of the $35 Raspberry Pi single board computer, finds a local Chromecast device, boots it off the network, and then takes over the screen with multimedia of one's choosing. But it gets worse for the victims: If the hacker leaves the range of the device, there's no way to regain control of the Chromecast. Unfortunately for Google, this is a rather serious issue with the Chromecast device that's not too easy to fix, as the configuration process is an essential part of the Chromecast experience.
Trailrunner7 writes There are a number of undocumented and hidden features and services in Apple iOS that can be used to bypass the backup encryption on iOS devices and remove large amounts of users' personal data. Several of these features began as benign services but have evolved in recent years to become powerful tools for acquiring user data.
Jonathan Zdziarski, a forensic scientist and researcher who has worked extensively with law enforcement and intelligence agencies, has spent quite a bit of time looking at the capabilities and services available in iOS for data acquisition and found that some of the services have no real reason to be on these devices and that several have the ability to bypass the iOS backup encryption. One of the services in iOS, called mobile file_relay, can be accessed remotely or through a USB connection can be used to bypass the backup encryption. If the device has not been rebooted since the last time the user entered the PIN, all of the data encrypted via data protection can be accessed, whether by an attacker or law enforcement, Zdziarski said.
Update: 07/21 22:15 GMT by U L : Slides.
An anonymous reader writes Speaking via a Google Hangout at the Hackers on Planet Earth Conference, Edward Snowden says he plans to work on technology to preserve personal data privacy and called on programmers and the tech industry to join his efforts. "You in this room, right now have both the means and the capability to improve the future by encoding our rights into programs and protocols by which we rely every day," he said. "That is what a lot of my future work is going to be involved in."
Trailrunner7 writes There's a new kid on the crypto ransomware block, known as Critroni, that's been sold in underground forums for the last month or so and is now being dropped by the Angler exploit kit. The ransomware includes a number of unusual features and researchers say it's the first crypto ransomware seen using the Tor network for command and control.
The Critroni ransomware is selling for around $3,000 and researchers say it is now being used by a range of attackers, some of whom are using the Angler exploit kit to drop a spambot on victims' machines. The spambot then downloads a couple of other payloads, including Critroni. Once on a victim's PC, Critroni encrypts a variety of files, including photos and documents, and then displays a dialogue box that informs the user of the infection and demands a payment in Bitcoins in order to decrypt the files.
"It uses C2 hidden in the Tor network. Previously we haven't seen cryptomalware having C2 in Tor. Only banking trojans," said Fedor Sinitsyn, senior malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab, who has been researching this threat. "Executable code for establishing Tor connection is embedded in the malware's body. Previously the malware of this type, this was usually accomplished with a Tor.exe file. Embedding Tor functions in the malware's body is a more difficult task from the programming point of view, but it has some profits, because it helps to avoid detection, and it is more efficient in general."
AlbanX (2847805) writes Australian daily deals website Catch of the Day waited three years to tell its customers their email addresses, delivery addresses, hashed passwords, and some credit card details had been stolen. Its systems were breached in April 2011 and the company told police, banks and credit cards issuers, but didn't tell the Privacy Commissioner or customers until July 18th.
savuporo sends word that a $10,000 bounty placed on hacking a Tesla Model S has been claimed by a team from Zhejiang University in China. The bounty itself was not issued by Tesla, but by Qihoo 360, a Chinese security company. "[The researchers] were able to gain remote control of the car's door locks, headlights, wipers, sunroof, and horn, Qihoo 360 said on its social networking Sina Weibo account. The security firm declined to reveal details at this point about how the hack was accomplished, although one report indicated that the hackers cracked the six-digit code for the Model S's mobile app.
jfruh writes: Point-of-sale systems aren't cheap, so it's not unusual for smaller merchants to buy used terminals second-hand. An HP security researcher bought one such unit on eBay to see what a used POS system will get you, and what he found was disturbing: default passwords, a security flaw, and names, addresses, and social security numbers of employees of the terminal's previous owner.
Bismillah writes: Russian security researchers have spotted a new malware named Mayhem that has spread to 1,400 or so Linux and FreeBSD servers around the world, and continues to look for new machines to infect. And, it doesn't need root to operate. "The malware can have different functionality depending on the type of plug-in downloaded to it by the botmaster in control, and stashed away in a hidden file system on the compromised server. Some of the plug-ins provide brute force cracking of password functionality, while others crawl web pages to scrape information. According to the researchers, Mayhem appears to be the continuation of the Fort Disco brute-force password cracking attack campaign that began in May 2013."
puddingebola (2036796) writes Businessweek has an account of the 2010 hacking of the NASDAQ exchange. From the article, "Intelligence and law enforcement agencies, under pressure to decipher a complex hack, struggled to provide an even moderately clear picture to policymakers. After months of work, there were still basic disagreements in different parts of government over who was behind the incident and why. 'We've seen a nation-state gain access to at least one of our stock exchanges, I'll put it that way, and it's not crystal clear what their final objective is,' says House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, a Republican from Michigan, who agreed to talk about the incident only in general terms because the details remain classified. 'The bad news of that equation is, I'm not sure you will really know until that final trigger is pulled. And you never want to get to that.'"
An anonymous reader writes Bitdefender has discovered that a new variant of the Trojan component, Pushdo, has emerged. 77 machines have been infected in the UK via the botnet in the past 24 hours, with more than 11,000 infections reported worldwide in the same period. The countries most affected so far by the Pushdo variant are India, Vietnam and Turkey. Since Pushdo has resurfaced, the public and private keys used to protect the communication between the bots and the Command and Control Servers have been changed, but the communication protocol remains the same.
msm1267 writes: The OpenBSD project late last night rushed out a patch for a vulnerability in the LibreSSL pseudo random number generator (PRNG). The flaw was disclosed two days ago by the founder of secure backup company Opsmate, Andrew Ayer, who said the vulnerability was a "catastrophic failure of the PRNG." OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt and developer Bob Beck, however, countered saying that the issue is "overblown" because Ayer's test program is unrealistic. Ayer's test program, when linked to LibreSSL and made two different calls to the PRNG, returned the exact same data both times.
"It is actually only a problem with the author's contrived test program," Beck said. "While it's a real issue, it's actually a fairly minor one, because real applications don't work the way the author describes, both because the PID (process identification number) issue would be very difficult to have become a real issue in real software, and nobody writes real software with OpenSSL the way the author has set this test up in the article."
ectoman writes: Opensource.com is running an interview with Jennifer Davidson of ChickTech, a non-profit organization whose mission is to create communities of support for women and girls pursuing (or interested in pursuing) careers in tech. "In the United States, many girls are brought up to believe that 'girls can't do math' and that science and other 'geeky' topics are for boys," Davidson said. "We break down that idea." Portland, OR-based ChickTech is quickly expanding throughout the United States—to cities like Corvallis and San Francisco—thanks to the "ChickTech: High School" initiative, which gathers hundreds of young women for two-day workshops featuring open source technologies. "We fill a university engineering department with 100 high school girls—more girls than many engineering departments have ever seen," Davidson said. "The participants can look around the building and see that girls from all backgrounds are just as excited about tech as they are."
An anonymous reader tipped us to news that Microsoft researchers have determined that reuse of the same password for low security services is safer than generating a unique password for each service. Quoting El Reg: Redmond researchers Dinei Florencio and Cormac Herley, together with Paul C. van Oorschot of Carleton University, Canada ... argue that password reuse on low risk websites is necessary in order for users to be able to remember unique and high entropy codes chosen for important sites. Users should therefore slap the same simple passwords across free websites that don't hold important information and save the tough and unique ones for banking websites and other repositories of high-value information. "The rapid decline of [password complexity as recall difficulty] increases suggests that, far from being unallowable, password re-use is a necessary and sensible tool in managing a portfolio," the trio wrote. "Re-use appears unavoidable if [complexity] must remain above some minimum and effort below some maximum." Not only do they recommend reusing passwords, but reusing bad passwords for low risks sites to minimize recall difficulty.
An anonymous reader writes Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman issued a new report examining the growing number, complexity, and costs of data breaches in the New York State. The report reveals that the number of reported data security breaches in New York more than tripled between 2006 and 2013. In that same period, 22.8 million personal records of New Yorkers have been exposed in nearly 5,000 data breaches, which have cost the public and private sectors in New York upward of $1.37 billion in 2013. The demand on secondary markets for stolen information remains robust. Freshly acquired stolen credit card numbers can fetch up to $45 per record, while other types of personal information, such as Social Security numbers and online account information, can command even higher prices.
Didn't we already have something kind of like this called a Blade server? But this is better! An HP Web page devoted to Moonshot says, 'Compared to traditional servers, up to: 89% less energy; 80% less space; 77% less cost; and 97% less complex.' If this is all true, the world of servers is now undergoing a radical change. || A quote from another Moonshot page: "The HP Moonshot 1500 Chassis has 45 hot-pluggable servers installed and fits into 4.3U. The density comes in part from the low-energy, efficient processors. The innovative chassis design supports 45 servers, 2 network switches, and supporting components.' These are software-defined servers. HP claims they are the first ones ever, a claim that may depend on how you define "software-defined." And what software defines them? In this case, at Texas Linux Fest, it seems to be Ubuntu Linux. (Alternate Video Link)
DavidGilbert99 (2607235) writes "Google has announced Project Zero, a group of security experts who will hunt down security flaws in all software which touches the Internet. Among the group is a 24-year-old called George Hotz who shot to fame in 2007 when he was the first to unlock the iPhone before reverse engineering the PlayStation 3." Quoting the Project Zero announcement: You should be able to use the web without fear that a criminal or state-sponsored actor is exploiting software bugs to infect your computer, steal secrets or monitor your communications. Yet in sophisticated attacks, we see the use of "zero-day" vulnerabilities to target, for example, human rights activists or to conduct industrial espionage. This needs to stop. ... We're not placing any particular bounds on this project and will work to improve the security of any software depended upon by large numbers of people, paying careful attention to the techniques, targets and motivations of attackers. All issues will be reported to the usual public vulnerability databases after vendors are given a short period to fix their systems and software.
An anonymous reader writes Release Candidate One of OpenWRT 14.07 "Barrier Breaker" is released. Big for this tiny embedded Linux distribution for routers in 14.07 is native IPv6 support and the procd init system integration. The native IPv6 support is with the RA and DHCPv6+PD client and server support plus other changes. Procd is OpenWRT's new preinit, init, hotplug, and event system. Perhaps not too exciting is support for upgrading on devices with NAND, and file system snapshot/restore so you can experiment without fear of leaving your network broken. There's also experimental support for the musl standard C library.
mpicpp (3454017) writes with news that Germany may be joining Russia in a paranoid switch from computers to typewriters for sensitive documents. From the article: Patrick Sensburg, chairman of the German parliament's National Security Agency investigative committee, now says he's considering expanding the use of manual typewriters to carry out his group's work. ... Sensburg said that the committee is taking its operational security very seriously. "In fact, we already have [a typewriter], and it's even a non-electronic typewriter," he said. If Sensburg's suggestion takes flight, the country would be taking a page out of the Russian playbook. Last year, the agency in charge of securing communications from the Kremlin announced that it wanted to spend 486,000 rubles (about $14,800) to buy 20 electric typewriters as a way to avoid digital leaks.
Advocatus Diaboli writes The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate pageview counts on web sites, "amplif[y]" sanctioned messages on YouTube, and censor video content judged to be "extremist." The capabilities, detailed in documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, even include an old standby for pre-adolescent prank callers everywhere: A way to connect two unsuspecting phone users together in a call. The tools were created by GCHQ's Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), and constitute some of the most startling methods of propaganda and internet deception contained within the Snowden archive. Previously disclosed documents have detailed JTRIG's use of "fake victim blog posts," "false flag operations," "honey traps" and psychological manipulation to target online activists, monitor visitors to WikiLeaks, and spy on YouTube and Facebook users.
An anonymous reader writes A group of researchers from University of California, Berkeley, have analyzed five popular web-based password managers and have discovered vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to learn a user's credentials for arbitrary websites. The five password managers they analyzed are LastPass, RoboForm, My1Login, PasswordBox and NeedMyPassword. "Of the five vendors whose products were tested, only the last one (NeedMyPassword) didn't respond when they contacted them and responsibly shared their findings. The other four have fixed the vulnerabilities within days after disclosure. 'Since our analysis was manual, it is possible that other vulnerabilities lie undiscovered,' they pointed out. They also announced that they will be working on a tool that automatizes the process of identifying vulnerabilities, as well as on developing a 'principled, secure-by-construction password manager.'"
An anonymous reader writes "Apple has never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services. We have also never allowed access to our servers," the company said Sunday in a bilingual statement on its China website. Users have to make the choice to enable the iPhones to calculate their locations, while "Apple does not track users' locations — Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so," the company said. The statement was in response to allegations by China's top state broadcaster that iOS7 software and its "Frequent Location" service posed a security risk. The data can be accessed easily, although labelled as "encrypted," and may lead to the disclosure of "state secrets," CCTV said.
mikejuk writes The Raspberry Pi foundation has just announced the Raspberry Pi B+. The basic specs haven't changed much — same BC2835 and 512MB of RAM and the $35 price tag. There are now four USB ports, which means you don't need a hub to work with a mouse, keyboard and WiFi dongle. The GPIO has been expanded to 40 pins, but don't worry: you can plug your old boards and cables into the lefthand part of the connector, and it's backward compatible. As well as some additional general purpose lines, there are two designated for use with I2C EEPROM. When the Pi boots it will look for custom EEPROMs on these lines and optionally use them to load Linux drivers or setup expansion boards. Expansion boards can now include identity chips that when the board is connected configures the Pi to make use of them — no more manual customization. The change to a micro SD socket is nice, unless you happen to have lots of spare full size SD cards around. It is also claimed that the power requirements have dropped by half, to one watt, which brings the model B into the same power consumption area as the model A. Comp video is now available on the audio jack, and the audio quality has been improved. One big step for Raspberry Pi is that it now has four holes for mounting in standard enclosures.
AHuxley (892839) writes "The Desk reports on a FOIA request covering "... all e-mails sent by Edward Snowden" and the NSA's refusal to release all documents. "The National Security Agency has acknowledged it retains a record of e-mail communications from former contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden, but says those records are exempt from public disclosure under the federal Freedom of Information Act. In a letter responding to a June 27 FOIA request from The Desk, the NSA's chief FOIA officer Pamela Phillips wrote that while the agency has retained records related to Snowden's employment as a contractor, they are being withheld from public examination because, among other things, releasing the records 'could interfere with law enforcement proceedings, could cause an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, could reveal the identities of confidential sources or would reveal law enforcement techniques and procedures.' Other records are being withheld because those documents were 'also found to be currently and properly classifiedand remains classified TOP SECRET, SECRET and CONFIDENTIAL.' The letter marks the first time the NSA has publicly acknowledged retaining communication and employment records related to Snowden's time as a contractor."
MojoKid writes We've been around the block enough times to know that outside of shredding a storage medium, all data is recoverable. It's just matter of time, money, and effort. However, it was still sobering to find out exactly how much data security firm Avast was able to recover from Android devices it purchased from eBay, which included everything from naked selfies to even a completed loan application. Does this mean we shouldn't ever sell the old handset? Luckily, the answer is no. Avast's self-serving study was to promote its Anti-Theft app available on Google Play. The free app comes with a wipe feature that overwrites all files, thereby making them invisible to casual recovery methods. That's one approach. There's another solution that's incredibly easy and doesn't require downloading and installing anything. Before you sell your Android phone on eBay, Craigslist, or wherever, enable encryption and wait for it to encrypt the on board storage. After that, perform a wipe and reset as normal, which will obliterate the encryption key and ensure the data on your device can't be read. This may not work on certain devices, which will ask you to decrypt data before wiping but most should follow this convention just fine.
Zothecula (1870348) writes "The Retina displays featured on Apple's iPhone 4 and 5 models pack a pixel density of 326 ppi, with individual pixels measuring 78 micrometers. That might seem plenty good enough given the average human eye is unable to differentiate between the individual pixels, but scientists in the UK have now developed technology that could lead to extremely high-resolution displays that put such pixel densities to shame."
msm1267 (2804139) writes "The source code for Tinba, known as the smallest banker Trojan in circulation, has been posted on an underground forum. Researchers say that the files turned out to be the source code for version one of Tinba, which was identified in 2012, and is the original, privately sold version of the crimeware kit. Tinba performs many of the same malicious functions as other banker Trojans, injecting itself into running processes on an infected machine, including the browser and explorer.exe. The malware is designed to steal financial information, including banking credentials and credit-card data and also makes each infected computer part of a botnet. Compromised machines communicate with command-and-control servers over encrypted channels. Tinba got its name from an abbreviation of "tiny banker," and researchers say that it's only about 20 KB in size."
The Washington Post reports that, "In a 3-2 vote along party lines Friday, the FCC greenlit a plan to spend $2 billion over the next two years on subsidies for internal networks. The move also begins a process to phase out some subsidies under the federal program, known as E-Rate, for services and equipment that are on the decline, such as pagers and dial-up Internet service." That sounds like a lot of money, and it is, but as usual in politics it's the result of a messy process: The original plan called for spending $5 billion on WiFi over five years, in line with a push by the Obama administration to bring next-gen broadband and WiFi to 99 percent of students over the same period. Those funds would have partly come from savings as a result of transitioning away from supporting legacy technologies. The proposal would also have eliminated an existing requirement that E-Rate funds be spent first on broadband services before being applied to WiFi. In past years, the cost of broadband service meant that money was rarely left over for upgrading WiFi connections. But the FCC's proposal was ultimately scaled back late Thursday amid Republican objections that the E-Rate program can't afford the changes. The final proposal's two-year, $2 billion commitment accounts for the money the FCC has already set aside for WiFi upgrades, but it does not commit the FCC to funding WiFi upgrades at that same rate for the following three years.
wiredmikey (1824622) writes China-based threat actors are using sophisticated malware installed on handheld scanners to target shipping and logistics organizations from all over the world. According to security firm TrapX, the attack begins at a Chinese company that provides hardware and software for handheld scanners used by shipping and logistics firms worldwide to inventory the items they're handling. The Chinese manufacturer installs the malware on the Windows XP operating systems embedded in the devices.
Experts determined that the threat group targets servers storing corporate financial data, customer data and other sensitive information. A second payload downloaded by the malware then establishes a sophisticated C&C on the company's finance servers, enabling the attackers to exfiltrate the information they're after. The malware used by the Zombie Zero attackers is highly sophisticated and polymorphic, the researchers said. In one attack they observed, 16 of the 48 scanners used by the victim were infected, and the malware managed to penetrate the targeted organization's defenses and gain access to servers on the corporate network. Interestingly, the C&C is located at the Lanxiang Vocational School, an educational institution said to be involved in the Operation Aurora attacks against Google, and which is physically located only one block away from the scanner manufacturer, TrapX said.
ConstantineM writes: It has finally happened. Bob Beck of The OpenBSD Foundation has just announced that the first release of LibreSSL portable is now available, and can be found in the LibreSSL directory of your favourite OpenBSD mirror. libressl-2.0.0.tar.gz has been tested to build on various versions of Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. This is intended to be an initial portable release of OpenBSD's libressl to allow the community to start using it and providing feedback, and has been done to address the issue of incorrect portable versions being attempted by third-parties. Support for additional platforms will be added as time and resources permit.
New submitter tylke (621801) writes: "Brian Krebs is reporting that the Gameover ZeuS botnet recently taken down by the U.S. Justice Department in June has re-emerged. The new variant of the Trojan is "stripped of the P2P code, and relies instead on an approach known as fast-flux hosting," a kind of round-robin technique that lets botnets hide phishing and malware delivery sites behind a network of compromised systems. Krebs says, "[T]his variant also includes a 'domain name generation algorithm' or DGA, which is a failsafe mechanism that can be invoked if the botnet's normal communications system fails. The DGA creates a constantly-changing list of domain names each week (gibberish domains that are essentially long jumbles of letters). In the event that systems infected with the malware can't reach the fast-flux servers for new updates, the code instructs the botted systems to seek out active domains from the list specified in the DGA. All the botmasters need to do in this case to regain control over his crime machine is register just one of those domains and place the update instructions there." (Disclosure: I work for Malcovery Security, the company credited with identifying the new variant.)
grahamsaa writes: Like many others in IT, I sometimes have to do server maintenance at unfortunate times. 6AM is the norm for us, but in some cases we're expected to do it as early as 2AM, which isn't exactly optimal. I understand that critical services can't be taken down during business hours, and most of our products are used 24 hours a day, but for some things it seems like it would be possible to automate maintenance (and downtime).
I have a maintenance window at about 5AM tomorrow. It's fairly simple — upgrade CentOS, remove a package, install a package, reboot. Downtime shouldn't be more than 5 minutes. While I don't think it would be wise to automate this window, I think with sufficient testing we might be able to automate future maintenance windows so I or someone else can sleep in. Aside from the benefit of getting a bit more sleep, automating this kind of thing means that it can be written, reviewed and tested well in advance. Of course, if something goes horribly wrong having a live body keeping watch is probably helpful. That said, we do have people on call 24/7 and they could probably respond capably in an emergency. Have any of you tried to do something like this? What's your experience been like?
MojoKid (1002251) writes "Back in the day (which is a scientific measurement for anyone who used to walk to school during snowstorms, uphill, both ways), integrated audio solutions had trouble earning respect. Many enthusiasts considered a sound card an essential piece to the PC building puzzle. It's been 25 years since the first Sound Blaster card was introduced, a pretty remarkable feat considering the diminished reliance on discrete audio in PCs, in general. These days, the Sound Blaster ZxR is Creative's flagship audio solution for PC power users. It boasts a signal-to-noise (SNR) of 124dB that Creative claims is 89.1 times better than your motherboard's integrated audio solution. It also features a built-in headphone amplifier, beamforming microphone, a multi-core Sound Core3D audio processor, and various proprietary audio technologies. While gaming there is no significant performance impact or benefit when going from onboard audio to the Sound Blaster ZxR. However, the Sound Blaster ZxR produced higher-quality in-game sound effects and it also produces noticeably superior audio in music and movies, provided your speakers can keep up."
sandbagger (654585) writes with word of a Y2K-style bug showing up in Y2K14: "The glitch originated with the Pennsylvania Department of Motor Vehicles during an automated data transfer of nearly 400,000 records. The records of males born between 1993 and 1997 were mixed with those of men born a century earlier. The federal agency didn't know it because the state uses a two-digit code to indicate birth year." I wonder where else two-digit years are causing problems; I still see lots of paper forms that haven't made the leap yet to four digits.
cartechboy (2660665) writes "It seems there's a new hack challenge set every week, but this time, it seems different. A challenge has been thrown down to hack a Tesla Model S with a $10,000 prize. The organizers of a computer security conference have set the challenge and it's open to anyone that registers for the Syscan conference. Taking place in Beijing from July 16-17, the rules for the hack competition haven't been revealed yet but a Model S will be on display for hackers to try their luck on. It's important to note that Tesla itself isn't involved in the competition in any official capacity, nor does it support the competition. If successful, this wouldn't be the first time a Tesla Model S has been hacked. In that instance Tesla was quick to warn people that making changes in the Model S' software would immediately void the car's warranty. Given the car's high-tech nature, it's no shock Tesla's taking security seriously. With $10,000 on the line, it'll be interesting to see if anyone manages to crack the code."


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Seattle - Attorney General Rob McKenna and Comcast Senior Vice President Mitch Bowling met today to kick off Internet Safety Month and to discuss efforts to increase parental awareness of the tools available to keep their children safe on the Internet. McKenna has recorded public service announcements with McGruff the Crime Dog about Internet safety for kids that will run on Comcast in Washington over the next couple of months.
In 2006, the Attorney General's Office teamed up with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to provide free train-the-trainer seminars to prepare up to 400 educators and law-enforcement officers to teach Internet safety using NetSmartz resources. NetSmartz creates age-appropriate educational materials to teach children and teens rules for online safety.
As part of the SafetyNet campaign, the Attorney General's Office visited communities across Washington to share expert tips about the Internet dangers and to talk about ways kids can avoid those dangers.
McKenna convened the Youth Internet Safety Task Force in 2007 to focus on protecting Washington's children online. The Attorney General's Office has created a Kids and the Net site with must-read tips for parents and children.
"The anonymity of the Internet has allowed stalkers, sex offenders and other bad guys to come in contact with children more easily. According to a national report, 1 in 7 children between the ages of 10 and 17 have been solicited online for sex," Attorney General McKenna said. "I am encouraged by my office's work to fight these threats facing Washington's children along with Comcast and others.
"We must be more vigilant than ever when it comes to educating our youth about internet safety. I have convened a Youth Internet Safety Task Force that will work to increase Internet safety awareness throughout Washington," McKenna said. "In addition, I have asked it to review current law in related areas such as child pornography and unlawful communication with minors."
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(NEW YORK) -- Many Americans have big plans for the Labor Day weekend, but employers won't be happy to learn that worker anticipation of the three-day holiday has a negative impact on productivity. A new survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of Red Bull finds 48 percent of U.S. employees ages 25-49 admit that their productivity diminishes just before, or immediately following, a holiday or vacation.
Women are more likely than men to admit to a decline in workplace productivity ahead of a holiday, 47 percent to 40 percent.
The survey also finds that many U.S. workers admit to experiencing a lack of energy and a loss of productivity on a regular basis. One-in-five U.S. employees age 25-49 confess they begin to feel their productivity start to diminish in the first hour of their workday.
Eleven percent of employees feel their productivity diminishes within the first three hours of their workday.
Fifty-seven percent of U.S. workers claim their productivity diminishes four to eight hours into their day.
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-- Workers ages 18-34 and those ages 45-54 (both seven percent) are more likely than those over 55 (one percent) to feel their productivity diminish in the first hour of their workday.
-- Those with children under 18 in their household are more likely than those with no children to get tired within the first three hours of work (17 percent vs. 8 percent).
-- Employed adults with kids younger than six years old in their household were more likely than those with children age 6-17 present in their household to admit being tired within the first three hours of work (25 percent vs. 14 percent).
-- Ten percent of workers ages 25-49 say being confused about what to do at work represents their single greatest challenge to productivity.
The Harris Interactive survey was conducted online from June 7-11, 2013, and involved 2,046 adults ages 18 and older, among whom 1,093 are employed.
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Is This The Real Robert Johnson?
Uncut has found an ebay seller that purports to have found a third photograph of famous Delta bluesman Robert Leroy Johnson.
The listing by SDPhan in San Diego, California claims to have found the photograph whilst "at the swap meet digging through a photo album of old south delta type photos."
Johnson's history is infamously obscure, hardly anything certain is known about him apart from the fact that he recorded 29 songs and that he died young.
In his introduction to Alan Greenberg's film script 'Love In Vain: A Vision Of Robert Johnson,' Martin Scorsese says, "The thing about Robert Johnson was that he only existed on his records. He was pure legend."
There are only two known verified photographs of the musician, but this third one does bear some resemblance.
The seller has set the starting bid on the photograph at $795,000.00 but if it turns out to be genuine - it's surely priceless.
We've looked closely at the existing pictures (one of which is pictured above on the left) and this new one (above, right) - without his fingers in view it becomes more tricky - but his right ear is very similar.
Also the first and alleged third picture both have the higher right eyebrow, dimple on chin and similar nose...
What do you think? Is this Robert Johnson?


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How I felt after the game…
Yeah, it looked like the Detroit Lions were going to stomp the Baltimore Ravens after their first drive, but that was far from what happened. So how does a team drive the field and score a touchdown the first time they get the ball and then forget how to score after that for almost the entire game?
Well, I have the answer, but it's a little complicated. There's blame to go around, so lets look at who is getting fingers pointed at.
First and foremost, Calvin Johnson.
Let me just point out to rational fans,(those that still are), that megatron didn't cost the Lions a victory with his two drops, or by not getting his feet down in the end zone on a pass that few other receivers could have hauled in. Did Johnson have a bad game? Hell yes he did, but he was not the reason the Lions lost to the Ravens. Get off him.
Second, our brilliant NFL Officials
Now we're on to something. The first thing I noticed, and so did anyone watching the game after the replay, was the bogus facemask call on Jonte Green, who clearly had his hand on the shoulder and that's it. Before that point, and this will surprise some Lions fans, the Ravens had 4 penalties to just 2 for the Lions.
Two plays later, the officials called Don Carey for pass interference. Those that thought the Lions were a dirty team and were losing faith now had reason to be optimistic, the Lions now had caught the Ravens with 4 penalties.
Look, I agree with the Unnecessary Roughness call on Louis Delmas, he went high and there was helmet to helmet contact, so the officials didn't get everything wrong. They did, however, fail to see holding by the Ravens offensive line on a regular basis and missed a game changing pass interference call when Joe Fauria was going for a catch in the end zone while being held.
Yeah, that could have and probably did change the outcome of the game. The Lions lost 18-16, just 2 points, and would have probably at least kicked a field goal if a penalty had kept that drive alive. It didn't.
Third, floundering Matthew Stafford
Yeah, he didn't play well. There are reasons a quarterback gets happy feet,(that's when it looks like he is running in tires), and doesn't set to throw. The obvious one is simple, he sucks. We all know that despite the bad games, Stafford is still one of the brighter younger talents in the game today. Remember the QB sneak that fooled everyone, including his own offensive line, to score and win the game? Remember the dismantling of the Green Bay Packers a few weeks back? Hey, remember that one time a rookie quarterback got hit, suffering a separated shoulder, and came back in with no time left to throw his fifth and game winning touchdown pass against the Cleveland Browns?
Yeah, there are those that feel Stafford can't hit megatron in stride, though he did in the loss to the Ravens. Some of his throws were well placed, and he did look comfortable at times, just not often enough. He doesn't suck, so get over it.
Imagine Robert Griffin III or Michael Vick trying to run the Denver Bronco offense exactly the same way Peyton Manning does, or Peyton Manning running a read option offense. Some things just don't work, and sometimes a quarterback isn't comfortable in a particular offense.
Stafford is the most effective with one tight end and a back in the formation, and Brandon Pettigrew seems to have worked his way out of the offensive game play with his drops earlier this season. Pettigrew was only targeted 3 times against the Eagles and 2 times against the Packers, and again just two times in the loss to the Ravens before injuring his ankle in the second half. That's not good for the offense, because Pettigrew is the best blocking tight end on the roster. That allows him to be in the formation between the 20′s, where anything goes. That's also the main reason Joe Fauria isn't in the game when the Lions are in the middle of the field, his run blocking. Stafford needs a tight end to throw the ball to, that's one of his strengths.
Yeah, you wouldn't think quarterback Alex Smith is the best in the NFL, but in the right offensive scheme, one that plays to his strengths, he can flourish. That leads directly to who we can blame next for the loss to the Ravens.
Fourth, the coaching staff
Yeah, the game plan on offense looked awesome coming out of the gate, but the Ravens adjusted. The Lions run the ball an average of almost 28 times per game, and Monday night was no different. The Lions ran the ball 28 times. Thing is, the only rush on third down was a Stafford scramble on a broken play that saw him get tackled short of the first down marker. A penalty on the Ravens gave the Lions a first down. The Lions threw the ball on third down, and that's all they did, the entire game. To make matters worse, they lined up with an empty backfield on several occasions.
The Lions ran the ball 28 times on Monday night, but only one carry came on third down, a Matthew Stafford scramble that saw him slide short of the first down marker. A blow to the helmet by the Ravens defense gave the Lions first down yardage. The Lions had 5 first downs by rushing in the first half, and only 3 from passing. None of the rushing first downs were a third down conversion, the Lions were not running on third down.
This empty backfield look…not good for any 3rd and short unless it's under 2 minutes remaining and you are down by 4 or more, not for Stafford anyways. With a lone back, Stafford hit over 61% of his passes last season. 4+ Wide, Stafford hit only over 56% of his passes last season. The Lions did line up with no TE and pass 71 times last season, that's even worse, with Stafford hitting just 43.7% of his passes under that formation.
All of the above indicate Stafford isn't a spread the field and throw the ball guy, he needs a back and tight end..Linehan played exactly to the weakness of Stafford on Monday, from what I saw. Way too much empty backfield.
Now, remember the question in the first paragraph of this article? Hint:
how does a team drive the field and score a touchdown the first time they get the ball and then forget how to score after that for almost the entire game?
Here is the first drive:
1st down, pass
2nd down, run
3rd down, pass(Joique Bell, the Lions had a back in the formation on this third down, 46 yards)
1st down, run
2nd down, run
3rd down, pass(it was a 3rd and 7, Stafford hit for 5 yards, a penalty gave the Lions a 1st down)
1st down, pass
2nd down, Reggie Bush touchdown run
Take a look. You're the Ravens defensive coordinator. You adjust, play run only on first and second down and just pass on third down. It works, the Ravens make the Lions offense start to flounder.
Somehow, Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Scott Linehan decides to use that plan the entire game. The offense does not adjust after the Ravens do. To make matters worse, the Lions started using an empty backfield look. Why is that worse?
- There is no back, the QB can't check to a run if he doesn't like the defensive look before the snap.
- The defense just has to play pass, the run is not something they need to worry about.
- No back means that a blitz becomes more effective, with nobody to pick up any defender that comes free in a rush.
- There is no back to throw an outlet too. Remember that 46 yard Bell catch on the first scoring drive?
- If Stafford doesn't like the defensive look before the snap, his only option is to throw to another route or call a time-out to change the play. Schwartz rarely does that.
- Matthew Stafford has to make five reads, all fast, probably with an extra defender or two on a blitz. It isn't his game, he isn't Peyton Manning.
You make the call. In my opinion, there is no excuse for the sorry offensive game play that Linehan refused to budge from, even after the Ravens had it pegged. That took one drive. If you just pass on third down and still run for your average, you are also running more on 1st and second, against a Ravens defense that probably figured that out quickly. Wanna know why the Lions found themselves in those thidr down situations? Just think about it.
The Lions needed to get some first downs on 1st and 2nd down, not stumble along.
Jim Schwartz isn't without blame here. The Lions have too much talent on the roster to play the way they have. The undisciplined football has been an ongoing problem, one I no longer think Schwartz can get a handle on. Rumor has it that the Lions must make the playoffs for Schwartz to keep his job. I didn't agree with that assessment when I first heard it, but I do now.
Gunther Cunningham has done an adequate job this season, in my opinion, besides a few second half collapses here and there. At 67 years old, a top five rushing defense might not be enough to save his job. The Lions are going to have to move on soon on defense, and I have seen him as the scapegoat for some time now after the season is over.
In the end, you could be one of those fans that thought the Ravens would be a tough team to beat. I did. They came into that game having won four in a row. Thing is, they beat the Lions without scoring a single touchdown, and that irks me more than a little.
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- O'HARA'S BURNING QUESTIONS: Who's to blame in Lions' 18-16 loss to Ravens? (detroitlions.com)
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