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The Athenian Callirhoe Exclusive Hotel (4*) is a unique superior boutique hotel in the heart of Athens where style and comfort are happily coupled to offer a pleasant stay with the finest accommodation and delightful culinary experiences. At Athenian Callirhoe, one of the most well-known hotels in Athens, you will discover a distinctive building with elegant urban interior design. Enjoy the very best in luxury and service while being spoiled with the 'little things' a guest needs to make one feel at home. Visit the roof garden restaurant, Callirhoe VIP, and savour refreshing cocktails and delicious cuisine creations while enjoying the breathtaking view of both the Acropolis and Lycabettus hill.
Athenian Callirhoe is at a short walk from all Athens city's cultural highlights and attractions like Kallimarmaro Stadium, Plaka, Acropolis, the Brand New Acropolis Museum, and the commercial centre, making it ideal for all travellers.
Standard Rooms are decorated elegantly in earthy colours of light blue in combination with white touches to help to feel welcomed and relaxed. These rooms are equipped with free Wi-Fi, complimentary coffee and tea facilities, desk, digital laptop size safe, individually controlled heating and air conditioning, private bathroom with full amenities, hairdryer, mini-bar, direct-dial phone, and a flat screen TV with satellite and TV radio.
Find your favourite spot in the hotel and have a beverage, a snack or a meal. Don't miss the opportunity to visit their recently renovated Acropolis view restaurant, Callirhoe VIP, at the roof garden. It is open all year round and offers Mediterranean and international cuisine. Degli Artisti, the à la carte restaurant opens daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Callirhoe VIP Roof Garden Bar & Restaurant operates all year around with stunning Acropolis and Lycabettus views. Bar Café Degli Artisti offers original Italian delicacies and a variety of Italian and Greek wines. Petit Café Degli Artisti offers a variety of coffee, snacks, and beverages.
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MESA, Ariz. -- Mesa police said one person was killed and five others were hurt in a crash caused by a wrong-way driver Sunday afternoon.
Four vehicles were involved in the collision near Recker and McDowell roads at about 1:45 p.m.
Police said a Lincoln SUV driven by an 85-year-old woman was going the wrong way on Recker, which is a four-lane road divided by a raised median, when it struck a Mazda van head-on, causing the van to roll over.
The SUV then spun around and continued northbound where it hit a southbound Jeep Cherokee and Chevy Cavalier.
Five people had to be extricated from their vehicles.
Police said the SUV driver is listed in life-threatening condition at a local hospital. Her passenger, John Schrier, 87, died at a hospital.
The van driver, identified as a 56-year-old man, was treated for minor injuries. His passenger, a 52-year-old woman, suffered life-threatening injuries and is at a Valley hospital.
The driver of the Jeep and her passenger, a woman in her 80s, suffered non life-threatening injuries.
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An Event Mechanism for Linux
This article is the first in a series describing a new event-based mechanism for Linux. This particular article focuses on the motivation, requirements and benefits of such a mechanism for carrier-grade Linux.
The work of supporting a native event-based system in the Linux kernel started as a research project in 2001 at the Open Systems Lab (Ericsson Research, Corporate Unit) in Montréal, Canada. The goal was to provide Linux with an event-driven environment that could deliver better performance compared to existing solutions in the context of telecom applications.
There has been a growing interest in bringing the Linux operating system to a carrier-grade level. For example, the OSDL Carrier-Grade Linux working group (www.osdl.org/projects/cgl) currently is drafting a set of requirements to turn Linux into a solid carrier-grade server for Next Generation Networks.
Operating systems for telecom applications must ensure that they can deliver a high response rate with minimum downtime—less than five minutes per year, 99.999% of uptime—including hardware, operating system and software upgrade. In addition to this goal, a carrier-grade system also must take into account such characteristics as scalability, high availability and performance.
For such systems, thousands of requests must be handled concurrently without impacting the overall system's performance, even under high load. Subscribers can expect some latency time when issuing a request, but they are not willing to accept an unbounded response time. Such transactions are not handled instantaneously for many reasons, and it can take some milliseconds or seconds to reply. Waiting for an answer reduces applications' abilities to handle other transactions.
Many different solutions have been envisaged to improve Linux's capabilities using different types of software organization, such as multithreaded architectures, by implementing efficient POSIX interfaces or by improving the scalability of existing kernel routines. We think that none of these solutions are adequate for true carrier-grade servers.
In order to understand our point, this article provides an overview of telecom networks. The purpose is to clarify the requirements for a carrier-grade operating system. After this introduction, we explain the benefits of a native asynchronous event mechanism to better support carrier-grade characteristics.
Telecommunications is concerned with the establishment of telephone calls between two devices and the transport of voice over wire links. Figure 1 shows the traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). More specifically, carriers use the term signaling to indicate the establishment of a telephone call between two devices. Signaling in the PSTN is done through the Signaling System 7 (SS7) protocol stack. SS7 performs call routing and builds a path to the destination telephone through the circuits. The two phones are connected once the path is established and the voice can be carried over. The SS7 protocol is able to handle call routing, call forwarding and error conditions.
The flexibility, cost performance and continuous growth of the Internet are driving a migration of many telecom services to it. This helps to establish IP technologies as the new standard for all communications services. These two types of networks are based on different technologies and require the utilization of signaling and media gateways for inter-working purposes.
Gateways perform the translation of information between different types of network. For example, an SS7 gateway is used to encapsulate signaling over the IP network through the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). A media gateway is used to encode and decode the voice coming from the PSTN network and going to the IP network and vice versa.
The signaling and the media gateways provide connectivity to the IP network for calls coming from the PSTN network. Signaling gateways must perform protocol encapsulation in order to carry the syntax and semantics of SS7 messages over an internet protocol, such as SCTP over IP or UDP over IP. Signaling servers must be able to scale with respect to their system capabilities as the number of concurrent requests increases.
With a media gateway, operators can implement transport of streaming data between the PSTN and the IP networks. The number of connections they can accept depends on their hardware, which can vary in size from one to thousands of interfaces. Media gateways must support a large number of connections in real time.
Authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) servers maintain databases of user profiles. Typically, one or two AAA servers may contain information about several millions of subscribers belonging to a particular network operator. It is common to observe peaks of thousands of concurrent authentication requests per second. Such variation in the number of connections is difficult to plan for in advance. AAA servers have a critical role of controlling access to the IP network and are not allowed to fail. They require soft real-time capabilities, so they can reply to most requests within a few milliseconds.
Media servers provide specialized resources and services to end users, such as video conferences, video servers, applications and e-mail. An important aspect of these carrier-class systems is scalability. These platforms can accept a linear increase of the number of transactions with respect to the number of processors, interfaces or bandwidth. Telecom operators speak of linear scalability, meaning the cost per transaction or per user should not increase when scaling up a server.
In case of failure or unplanned interruption, carrier-grade platforms can recover automatically or failover to another server through network redundancy procedures. Live software upgrades and hot swap of hardware devices also are part of the 99.999% service availability.
Linux has proven to be stable and consistent over the years, and it is already an attractive option for carriers. In order to become a key element of telecom networks, however, it must be enhanced with components providing these much-needed carrier-grade capabilities.
As Linux continues to play an ever increasing role in corporate data centers and institutions, ensuring the integrity and protection of these systems must be a priority. With 60% of the world's websites and an increasing share of organization's mission-critical workloads running on Linux, failing to stop malware and other advanced threats on Linux can increasingly impact an organization's reputation and bottom line.
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10 Best-Selling Cars in America's Wealthiest ZIP Codes
5. Century City, Calif., 90067
Average income: $751,000
Top car: Toyota Prius
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4. Atherton, Calif., 94027
Average income: $768,000
Top car: Mercedes-Benz E-Class
Can you buy a car for less than $50,000 in Atherton? Yes, but if it's not the No. 2 Toyota Prius, your fellow residents may ask you to pick up the dry cleaning while you're out getting their groceries. There's a lot of Silicon Valley money in this heavily wooded town, and the top-ranked E-Class is a steal compared with the third-most-popular Porsche Panamera ($76,175), the Mercedes GL-Class ($63,445) and the Mercedes S-Class ($95,375).
3. Downtown Chicago, Ill., 60604
Average income: $782,000
Top car: Volkswagen Jetta
The Jetta was the No. 5 car in Century City, but it's No. 1 in Chicago's heart thanks largely to its compact frame, Its nearly 30 combined miles per gallon, 200-horsepower engine, keyless access, push-button start, 15.5 cubic feet of trunk space, heated front seats and 3 feet of rear legroom. Maybe it's the modesty of transplants from nearby Midwest towns, fear of blistering summers and snowy, salty winters or the realization that the city's shoulders may be broad but its parking spaces aren't, but none of the vehicles in downtown Chicago's Top 5 break $31,000. The Jetta, Honda CR-V (No. 2, $30,605), Jeep Grand Cherokee (No. 3, $30,120), Toyota Camry (No. 4, $25,535) and Toyota Camry (No. 5, $19,595) are all modestly priced by this list's standards, but are all reliable, practical choices. This ZIP code has a garage full of money to spend, but apparently keeps its fortune by spending it wisely.
2. Fisher Island, Fla., 33109
Average income: $1.5 million
Top car: Mercedes-Benz S-Class
Palm Beach is nice ... if you're slumming it. Miami's Fisher Island apparently won't let you take the ferry over with a car worth less than $50,000. There are only 500 residents on this island, and most of them seem to prefer their cars with wood accents throughout, active cruise control that practically brakes on its own, climate control and vents for every seat, a two-screen entertainment center in the front seat and its own smartphone app. The Mercedes-Benz E-Class and BMW X5 pass for frugal choices on this island at less than $60,000 apiece, but the Land Rover Range Rover Sport and Porsche Panamera that round out the island's Top 5 are only economy vehicles in the sense that the $20,000 to $30,000 difference in price between them and the S-Class is enough to buy an actual luxury car or two.
1. Manhattan, N.Y., 10274
Average income: $5.7 million
Top car: Mercedes-Benz E-Class
Sure, this segment of NYC is oozing with money, but is it necessarily a great idea to spend a whole lot of that cash on your ride? What are you going to do, park it outside a gala at the Met for five minutes until it's eventually moved or towed? Take it to a Knicks game and park it in a garage next to a carload of boisterous drunks from Hackensack? Even if you wouldn't deign to ride subways, there are town cars, limos and so many other options around town that make vehicle ownership a questionable proposition at best. The E-Class and the nearly $60,000 BMW X5 rank 1 and 2 on this ZIP code's wish list, but its affection for the Honda Accord ($23,070) and CR-V ($29,575) tell the bigger story of car ownership in this area. Owning a car of any sort here is a luxury, and if you're paying Soho loft prices just to park a car you might take out to the Hamptons or Berkshires every few months or so, it pays to aim low.
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Behind the Curtain: Coach Elana Chase
Part three of our Behind the Curtain interview series
[Editor's note: In our latest interview series, Behind the Curtain, we talk to the people backstage in the ski industry, the often-invisible, always hard-working coaches, techs, ski patrollers, course builders and more. Here is part three of the series (check out part one with ski tuner Kenny Nault and part two with event announcer Frankie Alisuag). Stay tuned to ESPN Freeskiing next Thursday for an interview with a guy who builds jumps for the pros.]
You may have never heard of Elana Chase, but you've definitely heard of the skiers she's coached: Jen Hudak, Torin Yater-Wallace, David Wise, Tucker Perkins, Jess Cumming, Anna Segal, Walter Wood, Anais Caradeux and more. Chase, a former member of the U.S. Freestyle Development Team for inverted aerials and moguls, is currently working as the program director for Vail's freeski and big-mountain teams. This winter, Chase was awarded the Pioneering Women's Award from the Outdoor Industries Women's Coalition for her work as a mentor and coach and in 2008, she was named Freestyle Coach of the Year by the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, the first time a park-and-pipe coach or a woman has earned that distinction.
Halfpipe being in the Olympics will be a game changer. It gives athletes another level of focus, a pinnacle of an event to reach for. Childhood dreams will be realized. It'll be interesting to see who makes it to 2014. There have been so many athletes who've worked so hard at this for over a decade and will they be able to make it another three years?
I would be so proud to have an athlete I worked with hang an Olympic gold medal around their neck.
When I first started coaching freeskiing, I wouldn't actually call myself a coach in public. The athletes didn't want anything to do with the people who represented traditional skiing or someone telling them what to do like a traditional coach.
I was once called "the secret weapon" by an athlete and I am still pretty proud of that statement.
I'm the only female coaching freeride at the elite level. And sure, the book gets judged by the cover every day. People have a hard time not looking at me differently. But it's not about me on the hill. It's about my athletes. They know I will do whatever it takes to help them achieve their goals despite the challenges.
For years, I did everything. I offered technical advice. I tuned skis. I set up dryland training programs. I was emotional support. I did logistics for traveling and helped with sponsor contracts. But now, at the higher levels and with the news of the Olympics, we have ski techs, team trainers, physios, agents, and coaches. My job is getting more specialized.
Winning isn't everything to me. It's paramount to be a good person first, a good skier second. I work with younger athletes too and these are the things we talk about as they rise through the ranks. Just ask Jen Hudak.
I coach the physics part of skiing and the athlete adds the creativity. I tend to just listen and not put my own opinion out there as to what tricks they should perform. I help them understand how the tricks are going to happen but not decide their run for them.
One of the unique elements about freeskiing is this thing we have called style. It's hard to put words to it, but it's the fluidity of the skiing, the way the athlete puts their run together and how visually pleasing it is to watch. It's their own personal interpretation of how freeskiing should look.
You never say something's impossible in this sport because someone will prove you wrong. Whether it's a unique way to grab your ski, axis of rotation or sheer amplitude of the tricks, never say never.
I'm not a believer in the idea that it's all natural talent, that someone's sports career is decided at age eight. There are so many factors that come together to make someone reach the highest levels -- hard work, the ability to stay positive, being a good person. You can see when someone has all of those special qualities. The stars start to line up.
Take Torin Yater-Wallace. He's only 15 but he's been working really hard for many years. He had adversity in his life and he still managed to show up to training every day and work really hard. We all saw it.
These athletes care so much, they're going to get a little angry when they don't do well. But I try to lighten it up with a joke like, 'It's only skiing.' The fact that they get to do this as their sport, a career for some, is extraordinary. They have to remember how good their lives really are.
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text: Kevin Kiner ... Discography | Filmography | Info | Interview Interview Kevin Kiner Flash player 9 is required: Download Share | 20 minutes, Language: EnglishRecorded by Tim Horemans on 2008-08-11 A California native who began his career as a rock guitarist in San Diego, Kiner enrolled in UCLA as a pre-Med student. Gigs playing around Hollywood led from the stethoscope to the Stratocaster; hired as the musical director for an international touring group with bookings in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Korean and Japan, he departed Los Angeles for the world. Kiner had previously composed and performed in the musical stage presentation A Taste of Honey with composer and future music executive Evan Greenspan. Returning from a world tour, Kiner planned to return to medical school, but Greenspan, now working at Alan Landsburg Productions, had a tip about a television show titled The World's Funniest Commercial Goofs. Unsolicited, the two created a theme song and were subsequently employed to score the show. Next, Kiner scored Foul Ups, Bleeps and Blunders. "There were four different producers," he remembers. "They all got their own shows and within a year I was scoring all four." Transcendent orchestral themes, rhythmic global grooves or edgy electronica: Kevin Kiner's command of a vast spectrum of musical styles makes him a Hollywood go-to composer. Film music aficionados will recognize the composer from feature films including Madison, Wing Commander, The Other Side of Heaven, Leprechaun, Tremors III, and The Pest, and he has composed music for network television series and shows such as CSI: Miami, The Star Trek: Enterprise series, Stargate SG-1, The Invisible Man, Walker Texas Ranger, The Visitor, Dead at 21 and The MTV Movie Awards. Honored with Emmy nominations for outstanding achievement in music composition (Johnny Quest and Stuart Little), he received an Annie nomination for outstanding music in an animated TV production for Harold and the Purple Crayon. Having conducted the London Philharmonic and The City of Prague Orchestra, Kiner's orchestral expertise defines his latest project: composing for a 90-piece orchestra for the animated feature Star Wars: The Clone Wars. At producer George Lucas' suggestion, Kiner has distinguished each planet in the mythic constellation with an individual geographical palette that incorporates indigenous ethnic sounds from Asia, the Middle East, Egypt, South America and other far flung locales. Incorporating and reimagining a main title theme that may well be one of the most recognizable musical signatures on the planet is a Herculean task and Kiner notes the enormous influence of the great John Williams with these words: "He's always been my absolute hero." FilmMusicSite.com is Copyright © 1998-2015 by Arvid Fossen. Privacy Policy.


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2 Fish Restaurant Port Douglas
Port's Must Do! Located on Wharf Street in the heart of Port Douglas's dining district, 2 Fish is proud of its leading reputation as one of Port Douglas's premier award winning restaurants.
2 Fish is a seafood restaurant with a difference that offers dynamic menu selections that represent an innovative and creative approach to modern seafood cuisine. Our Chefs combine the freshness of our local catch with the exotic flavours from around the world to produce both interesting and affordable dishes that really get the taste buds going.
Come and join us for lunch or dinner and experience the seafood taste sensation that has earned 2 Fish Restaurant glowing reviews and awards and a reputation as one of the best seafood restaurants in Port Douglas.
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20 Wharf Street, Port Douglas (Shop 7)
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first time i ever tried bay bugs and i absolutely loved it ..seafood lenguini is YUMMMYYY !!!
Food is good, service by the staff was excellent, the owner who delivered our meal was one of the rudest people i have ever met. There is no toilet on the premises and when i asked where one was he replied "in the pub". I then asked where that was (seeing as it was our first time in Port Douglas), he replied " it's the building that says pub on it", and sighed under his breath. When we told him we thought he was quite rude he said "ok then" and walked away. I would steer clear of this restaurant, there are plenty more places in Port Douglas where the service and people are fantastic,
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Holiday atmosphere with attentive service, but best of all delicious, fresh seafood. We will be back! Gail
Inventive, delicious food, superb service and the best view in the world. Next time I'm in Port Douglas it's the first place I'm going!!
Fabulous meal. The Fish of the Day was great. Fried fish and chips the best ever. And a lovely view over the boats at anchor. But you need a reservation. Enjoy! Jill
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So, just throwing it out there, and trying to avoid pundits who think 'the more taxes, the better', strictly speaking of _real_ expenses compared to your real income what kind of ratios are you getting? I'm basically paying 20% on the income I've made, which is kinda of, well, a lot, and no matter what expenses I'm coming up with (single guy, no investments) I'm really going to pay through my nose.
Not enough!
i'm new to adsense as of 2006, so i wont need to know the answer until i file next year -
Lets assume i make $1,000 from Adsense in all of 2006 (hey, i'm new.. and realistic). I plan on deducting my hosting fees, and some minor advertising fees.. Now, lets say that i needed to purchase a new computer for my "online business" (i really do need one).. and let's say this new computer costs $2,100 (Apple iMac 20") - can i deduct that cost even though it's more than i actually made? will this set off any red-flags with the IRS man?
We're on extension as we haven't compiled all the numbers for last year, but it looks like another year of income/expenses more or less balancing out so we don't have to pay taxes. :)
But the basic bottom line is, no matter how much you spend on hosting (say, $50/month * 12 months), if you hit the proverbial jackpot, that hosting will bring ya 10 hits or 10,000 hits.
To the exception of some minor adverstising on adwords/overt while I was experimenting with it, hosting is pretty much the only expense I can honestly claim as a consequence of my business.
Of course I also have a new laptop, a 19" screen, etc, but these are as much just expenses I would have made and not fully because of the business :)
Am I the only one who spends very little and collects a ton of money (relatively speaking)?
They're for the business.
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They ARE for the business.
I'm the same. Hosting costs, broadband connectivity, and of course business-related hardware are my only expenses. Like you're saying, hosting costs are relatively fixed. $50/month could bring you $1,000/year, $10,000/year or $100,000/year in revenue. That's one of the things to love about this business.
Who else out there is getting stung for not having paid their estimated taxes? I'm staring at a TurboTax screen telling me I owe quite a bit this year. =(
And if anyone cares to share, what exactly are those penalties I've heard about? =/
I knew I was in trouble in December, so I went out and bought a $60,000 Heavy Duty Pick Up and was able to depreciate the whole amount. The down side is that I am stuck with it for 7 years. I also have a brick and mortar company to where the truck will work out nicely. I wouldn't have been able to buy the truck if it wasn't for Adsense. I still owed for the year but I was able to wipe out 1/3 of my taxable income.
I have had it all of 30 minutes and couldn't be happier. :)
My penalties for not paying the estimated tax for 2005 aren't that bad, compared to the actual taxes I owe. Something like 2% of the taxes I owe, this according to Turbo Tax...
Other businesses expenses include hosting, domain renewal, Internet account, postage, phones and advertising.
If you don't have any expenses like this for your site what about going to things like PubCon. That's deductable isn't it? It could certainly help your business.
Funny you should ask this. My wife answered this for me today:
"not a damn 'nuff" :)
Hopefully she's just missing some receipts. I already paid quarterly taxes to the IRS, but I have a feeling I'm' going to owe more.
That's one advantage of staying a sole proprietor. One schedule C and One Tax Return. There are many who would probably disagree; however, for me the advantages of a sole proprietorship outweigh incorporating.
Most of the major brokerages will help you set them up. I checked around last year and found Fidelity to have the best assortment of plans and the most helpful advisors.
You can set up an LLC and in most cases have even better liability protection than a corporation. Yet you are still treated similar to a sole proprietorship for tax purposes (if you elect to have your company treated as a pass through entity.)
Internet run businesses just don't fit into the "tax forms" as printed --grrr.
90% of car related expenses 30% of energy costs im my apartment 80% of telephone fees 100% of internet ISP, hosting and domain names 100% notebooks and digital camera What I pay my wife for translating
I mad a sub account under "telecommunication expenses"
hmm...I didn't think about a 401k for self employed. Didn't even know they existed.
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President Barrack Obama and the United States government are in the middle of learning it the hard way. In Syria's prolonged civil war they always backed the rebel forces to oust hereditary (yet elected, and they all are) president Bashar_ al-Assad until they found out by their own (one could even suspect biased) analyses (?) that much of the anti-Assad forces comprised of members of ISIS -- Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, now Islamic State. Over the past fortnight there was an unveiled suggestion that in order to stop the much-feared Islamic State (ideologically leaning apparently towards al-Qaeda), which was gaining control of Eastern Syria and Western Iraq to carve a new State (!), US should befriend (foe) Assad. But, publicly at least, good sense dawned on them and, as Obama's popularity hits new lows, the US now have two enemies in as yet another far away land in the much relieved Assad and the rising Islamic State. As a result and thankfully so, there were no US strikes in Syria to arrest the advancement of Islamic State, yet, that is. Sadly, it seems that the Assad dynasty will continue as tyrannical monarchy in the guise of democracy. Well, he will not be the first. What a setback for the freedom-seeking people of Syria!
During our War of Liberation, India lent us a big and a generous helping hand; offering active refuge to over one crore terrorised, maimed and homeless Bangladeshi men, women and children, providing youth camps for war volunteers from barely teens to sexagenarians, helped establishing vast training, administrative and operational grounds for the Bangladesh liberation forces within its territory. Were the Indians helping a new friend? Or were they taking it back on their enemy Pakistan? Abraham Lincoln's "Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" does appear rather naïve and romantic at best.
At a personal level too, we too often rush to the enemy of our enemy and unload a host of grievances (including best kept secrets) against our enemy, but there is never any guarantee that this will bode well for the complainant. Wishing for a shoulder to lean on is one thing, and being granted support is another. If particularly the enemy of one's enemy, the assumed friend, turns out to be a bad apple, the sharing of confidential information may turn out to be embarrassing and counter-productive. Mark Twain is quoted as having said, "It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you."
Often enough a friend would be quite upset if you went and befriended his/her supposed enemy while also maintaining your mutual friendship. But how come? A somewhat immature person will usually insist that you cut off all your relations with that person's 'enemy', meaning someone who is no more a friend but once perhaps was. Now, is that person sitting on a high pedestal, or what? Friendship is his to his, her to her, it to it, but a person in rage (read state of stupidity) understands not. Sometime in life, he or she too gets paid by the same currency called bitterness, albeit unnecessary. Wrote Indonesian author Toba Beta, "If I ask God to punish my enemy with vengeful prayers, then He is fair to allow the enemy to do the same for me."
It has often been observed in sport competitions of all places, even at the international level, that a team will let go a friendly (or easy opponent) to hurt a bitter opposition. Match fixing in Dhaka leagues was because of the same reason. Rules that threatened punitive measures hardly produced better sportsman spirit. The Disciplinary Committee would come up with the verdict that two teams played below par to give advantage to either of the teams or another. The teams would appeal that they played their natural game, and win, the appeal, that is. That is why you will have noticed that the last group matches, for example in the FIFA World Cup are played at the same time and on the same date. Obviously, there are cheats even at that level.
Needless to say, politics offers the best (pun intended) examples of yesterday's-friend-today's enemy syndrome, and vice versa. Charles Warner dubbed that sort of nefarious activities as making available 'strange bedfellows'. Politicians speaking foul of a leader have joined the foul leader's camp as soon as he (or she) sensed a parliamentary seat or some pecuniary handouts or some advantage, but then not always. There are some scrupulous beings in politics even today.
My friend's enemy is my enemy. My enemy's enemy is my friend. It does not always work out that simply. My friend's friend is my enemy. That too is happening all the time. Some people label it as jealousy.


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Nir Goldshlager runs a "Web Application Security Blog." He's also happened to find a variety of security holes and exploits on sites like Facebook, Twitter and PayPal. His latest discovery, however, was a glaring hole in Facebook's OAuth system: Nir was able to find a flaw that gave him access to everyone's entire Facebook account — without having to install anything, or even click the "allow" button for apps.
I found a way in to get full permissions (read inbox, outbox, manage pages, manage ads, read private photos, videos, etc.) over the victim account even without any installed apps on the victim account…
Here's the video that Nir posted on his blog, detailing his method:
Don't bother trying this yourself though, as Facebook has already fixed it. But it doesn't change the fact that there are such serious flaws in a site where more than a billion people have information stored. And what if Nir didn't discover this and post it for everyone to see?
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[@mukhi] People forgets encryption as usual. I'm not talking about https, but something like your own AES password.
Yup! Had someone to hack mine, and had to totally redo! Looks like these bored bums would get their a$$ out and get a job!
[@Shava Nerad] good comments, and i do agree 100% with your last line…
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The real question is not what if Nir didn't, but how many people discovered it and exploited it quietly before Nir put on his white hat and opened it up to public view?
That's how these things work generally. A lot of questionably motivated people discover the flaw and play their own games with it as they will. Eventually some white hat hacker notifies the site that they have a major security flaw, and they are in deep crap.
Then, the typical response, believe it or not, is that the site sends them legal threats that they could be jailed for wire fraud (millions of dollars and decades of jail time) if they publish their results. So they need to bury their results and never publish them. Essentially, it turns security researchers into blackmailers whether they want to be or not — unless they call the companies' bluffs and publish anyway, because people need to know their data has been compromised.
Some gray hat folks make a very tidy living finding vulnerabilities and living off the ransoms from zero-day vulnerabilities, though, that the big companies will pay to keep out of the news like this. And it sucks, because you have no idea how many of these you never hear about.
Personally, I would NEVER put any of my data I cared about in the cloud. Just sayin'….


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LOCATION: Amersfoort, NL YEAR: 2007 STATUS: Laureate CATEGORY: Transportation NOMINATING COMPANY: Accenture |
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In 2007, Greater Rotterdam area and Amsterdam in the Netherlands will become the first areas anywhere in the world where users of public transit have single-card access to all forms of public transportationbus, metro, tram and train. By 2009 commuters across the whole country will enjoy similar advantages. These benefitsan almost incalculable asset to citizens and transportare the result of a ground-breaking electronic payment (smart card) system for public transportation pioneered by Trans Link Systems (TLS) and brought to life by the unique collaboration of Accenture, Thales, Vialis, MTR Corporation and Octopus Cards. The smart card, (OV-chipkaart), is basically a contact-less card that is simply waved in front of an electronic reader at transportation entry points. Via the card, safe and quick access is effected, with fees deducted from the cards loaded balance or through travel products e.g. payment for a single trip or seasonal tickets which are loaded onto the OV-chipkaart. Financial convenience for customers is only the tip of the benefits iceberg. This is because the hassle of obtaining separate tickets for each mode of transport is also eliminated. The OV-chipkaart also streamlines traffic flow through entry points. Personal security is enhanced because lost or stolen cards can easily be traced and cancelled. Lastly, data acquired through the card can help the public transport operators continuously improve their service. All in all, the card is safer, faster and more convenient for customers. For transport operators, the system offers a better way to manage passengers and finances because it gives insight in the need for manpower, equipment and maintenance. It also reduces the cost of printing paper tickets, reduces fare evasions and lessens congestion. Clearing and settling funds across operators is performed fast and accurately by Trans Links Systems.
Introductory Overview
The quest to create a smart card that allows transit users to travel seamlessly across all of a countrys modes of public transport was not achieved until recently. This breakthrough was achieved by Trans Link Systemsa joint venture formed in 2001 by five Dutch transit agencies: Connexxion, the trans-regional bus service, GVB (Amsterdam), HTM (The Hague), the NS (Dutch Railway Company) and the RET (Rotterdam). These companies provide more than 80% of Dutch public transport services. As an independent governing body, Trans Link Systems focused on implementing a smart card system for public transport that can be used on the bus, train, tram and subway. Prior to the creation of Trans Link Systems, several other smart card initiatives fell short. Principal reasons included immense technology challenges and the difficulty associated with establishing consensus among stakeholders (eg. nearly 15 public transport operators, almost 20 regional transport authorities) across the Netherlands. Trans Link Systems succeeded in these areas. The initiative began in 2001 (Trans Link Systems founded) and was formalized after the public tender in 2003, when Trans Link Systems teamed with an international consortium including Accenture, Thales, Vialis, MTR Corporation and Octopus Cards. Accenture provided program management expertise, integrated the system's technology infrastructure and coordinated system delivery. Accenture also set up and managed the system's operational services organization (e.g., for clearing and settling revenue) until Trans Link Systems was ready to take over in mid-2006. Thales designed, and helped implement, the integrated fare-collection system. Vialis installed the system's physical infrastructure, such as smart card readers (validators) and ticketing and fare machines, and is responsible for their maintenance. MTRC and Octopus Cards provided additional expertise in operational services. Technology challenges faced by Accenture, Thales, Vialis, MTR and Octopus were extensive. As program manager, Accenture was responsible for the integration of numerous platforms, operating systems and applications, including XML, Oracle database with data warehousing, Oracle SQL Plus/SQL, UNIX, Apache Ant, OO, CSS, HTML, JSP and ITIL. Alignment of more than 50 different fare products and more than 60 transaction rules were requiredmaking this one of the most complex e-ticketing systems globally. Also, the systems flexibility had to accommodate the varying specifications to which transit company systems and ticket gates had already been built. Toward this end, an open architecture design was used to make it easier for other suppliers to join, and for Trans Link Systems to modify or scale. Another hurdle was linking the central clearing-house system to the systems of each transport operator and financial institution. As designed, the clearing-house system receives all the data created by the various operators. The system then allocates payments across each transport company, manages the automatic uploading of the smart card, and registers/deregisters valid/invalid cards. Just as daunting was reconciling the technical, political, cultural and business requirements of the participating agencies. To this end, workshops and meetings were facilitated, and progress reports and key issues were shared with Trans Link Systems decision makers, public transport operators and financial institutions. Business model and use-case scenarios were created and aligned under Accenture's guidance. In 2005, the OV-chipkaart became available to the first passengers, combining the services of the first three of the five major public transport companies, connecting NS (Dutch Railway Company), RET (Rotterdam's public transit system), and Connexxion (the trans-regional bus service) into a single integrated system that links 10 railway stations, 47 metro stations and 150 busses. Ultimately, the card will be extended for use on all trains, busses, subways and trams throughout the Netherlands. The system is expected to handle 1.4 billion trips per year and clear/settle an estimated 2.5 billion (($3.2 billion USD) annually.
Has your project helped those it was designed to help?
What new advantage or opportunity does your project provide to people? The project has been an unqualified success with significant benefits for Dutch commuters and the public transport companies. The new systems benefits to passengers and the countrys public transport authorities and operators are indisputable. On the customer side, the OV-chipkaart can be loaded with e-purse or products at machines in transit stations or they can be linked to the cardholder's bank account value is added automatically to the OV-chipkaart via a direct debit instruction to the bank when the value of the card reaches a specified minimum. The result is a speedier and more convenient way for commuters to pay fares for all modes of travel. When boarding trains, busses or trams, passengers place their cards in front of an electronic reader and have their fares calculated and deducted from their e-purse on the OV-chipkaart. The system ensures all fares are credited to the appropriate transport company. Lost or stolen cards can be easily traced and cancelled. Has your project fundamentally changed how tasks are performed? Yes How do you see your project's innovation benefiting other applications, organizations, or global communities? For the transport operators, the system represents a better way to manage passenger flow and finances. For example, it gives insight into the need for manpower, equipment and maintenance, allowing a focus on service. Operational processes, such as clearing and settling funds among transport operators, can be performed faster and more accuratelyeven though as many as five million daily transactions will be handled once the system is fully implemented. Lastly, the system reduces fare evasions and decreases congestion because only OV-chipkaart holders are able to proceed onto platforms. It seems likely, therefore, that the combination of convenience, speed and improved safety will motivate more people to use public transport. Beneficiariescustomers, corporations and communitiesspeak directly to the systems exceptional success. Widespread collaboration and innovative use of technology are key parts of the picture: helping to create a country-wide asset from which every participant benefits.
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How did the technology you used contribute to this project and why was it important?The new system incorporates the latest generation of Thales equipment: secured metro contact-less access gates, ticket vending machines, point-of-sale terminals, and validators for busses. One of Trans Link Systems highest priorities was to ensure that the systems flexibility would be great enough to accommodate the many specifications to which any transit operators systems and equipment had been built. Toward this end, the entire system was developed using an open architecturecomputer/software architecture that is receptive to adding, upgrading and swapping of components. The Specification Documentation on Open Architecture (SDOA) is used to ensure that other suppliers can join the process, thereby avoiding supplier lock-in. SDOA also makes it possible to easily modify or scale the system to meet changes in service demands, to add services and to integrate with new providers. The scope of the integration challenge was significant: Accentures integration of platforms, operating systems and applications included XML, Oracle database with data warehousing, Oracle SQL Plus/SQL, UNIX, Apache Ant, OO, CSS, HTML, JSP and ITIL. Dramatic technology integration challenges were also evidenced by the need to tie the central clearing-house system to the systems of each transport operator and financial institution. All devices can communicate with the smart cards in a secure and encrypted manner. More than 50 different fare products have been programmed into the system, nearly all of which can be used across multiple public transport operators. With more than 60 transaction rules, this is one of the most complex e-ticketing systems in the world. The smart card itself has 4K of memory, transaction time of less than 250 milliseconds and can operate in proximity of 10 centimeters. The chips use Mifare technology from Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands.
What are the exceptional aspects of your project?By 2009, the OV-chipkaart will be the only valid ticket for public transportation in the Netherlands. At that point, these cards will be enabling about 1.4 billion trips per year, with an estimated annual value of 2.5 billion ($3.2 billion USD). How is it original? This is one of the first smart card programs to go beyond typical city-centric fare-system implementations. The system thus represents a landmark in public transportation. It is being closely watched around the globe with serious interest already shown by governments in Canada and Denmark. The independent governance model and collaboration with an industrial consortium are unique for such a large-scale public-transport project Is it the first, the only, the best or the most effective application of its kind? All of the above
Has your project achieved or exceeded its goals?
Is it fully operational? No How many people benefit from it? Millions If possible, include an example of how the project has benefited a specific individual, enterprise or organization. Please include personal quotes from individuals who have directly benefited from your work. The roll out of the entire project is staged into three different phases: Phase One, which involved the distribution of approximately 15,000 smart cards (out of an expected total 10 million cards) was finalised by the end of 2005. This phase involved testing the system (including the fully functional back-office operation) in the city of Rotterdam with the entire RET metro network and 150 busses in the Hoekse Waard and Voorne Putten. In Phase Two (spring 2006), the system was expanded to include trains (NS) traveling between Hoek van Holland and Rotterdam. In the summer of 2006 the system was also connected to the metro in Amsterdam (in total a number of more than 100,000 cards were distributed by that time). As it expands, more travelers and transport companies in the Netherlands will take advantage of the system's many benefits, including services such as tracing lost or stolen cards, clearing and settlement, refunds, and a customer service call center and website. Based on the results of the final test in Phase Two (expected in April 2007, with a total of approximately 300,000 cards distributed), the program will move into Phase Three and full roll-out throughout the Netherlands. It is not a stretch to say that the entire Dutch populationnearly 17 million peoplecould benefit from the system. As noted in Section 3, significant advantages also accrue to the countrys transport operators. Jeroen Kok, CEO, Trans Link Systems says: The passenger benefits; thats what it is all about. And the idea is very simple: one ticket for all public transport modes. It is a very easy thought, but that is all it is. How quickly has your targeted audience of users embraced your innovation? Or, how rapidly do you predict they will? The roll out of the entire project is staged into three different phases: Phase One, which involved the distribution of approximately 15,000 smart cards (out of an expected total 10 million cards) was finalised by the end of 2005. This phase involved testing the system (including the fully functional back-office operation) in the city of Rotterdam with the entire RET metro network and 150 busses in the Hoekse Waard and Voorne Putten. In Phase Two (spring 2006), the system was expanded to include trains (NS) traveling between Hoek van Holland and Rotterdam. In the summer of 2006 the system was also connected to the metro in Amsterdam (in total a number of more than 100,000 cards were distributed by that time). As it expands, more travelers and transport companies in the Netherlands will take advantage of the system's many benefits, including services such as tracing lost or stolen cards, clearing and settlement, refunds, and a customer service call center and website. Based on the results of the final test in Phase Two (expected in April 2007, with a total of approximately 300,000 cards distributed), the program will move into Phase Three and full roll-out throughout the Netherlands. It is not a stretch to say that the entire Dutch populationnearly 17 million peoplecould benefit from the system. As noted in Section 3, significant advantages also accrue to the countrys transport operators. Jeroen Kok, CEO, Trans Link Systems says: The passenger benefits; thats what it is all about. And the idea is very simple: one ticket for all public transport modes. It is a very easy thought, but that is all it is.
What were the most important obstacles that had to be overcome in order for your
work to be successful? Technical problems? Resources? Expertise? Organizational
problems?Trans Link Systems' smart card operation is extremely complex and involves the integration of numerous technology systems. As a measure of the system's complexity, more than 50 different fare products had to be programmed into the system, as well as more than 60 transaction rules. The system has to accommodate for the fact that ticket gates at stations in different cities were built to different specifications. There were many unanticipated challenges. For example, fears about potential vandalism required a redesign of the plastic covers of electronic readers. Developers had to alter the card readers' laser beams when, during testing, rain and snow interfered with the ability to function. Just as important as the technical difficultiesand as dauntingwas the high-level challenge of coordinating and managing the activities of the consortium member companies that designed, built, tested, deployed and are operating the landmark system. That challenge was matched by the task of negotiating the sometimes conflicting needs of the five major public transport companies involved. Many of the initiatives challenges were also cultural/politicalreconciling the priorities and change issues of the specific participating agencies. To make this happen, workshops and meetings were carefully facilitated. Progress reports and key issues were diligently shared among all stakeholders. Business model and use-case scenarios also were created and aligned to ensure full understanding and acceptance across all involved parties. Often the most innovative projects encounter the greatest resistance when they are originally proposed. If you had to fight for approval or funding, please provide a summary of the objections you faced and how you overcame them. As noted previously, several smart card initiatives had been launched prior to the creation of Trans Link Systems, but they all fell short. So when the countrys five largest operators approached Jeroen Kokwho was then responsible for publicprivate partnerships for the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, and asked him to head yet another attempt, he laid out some strict conditions. The governing company, he told them, would have to be an independent company, and the five transport operators Nederlandse Spoorwegen, the national train service; Connexxion, the trans-regional bus service; GVB, Amsterdams public transport operator; RET, Rotterdams public transit system; and HTM, the public transport group for The Haguewould have to take joint responsibility as shareholders and providers of capital. If the companys corporate governance was right, Kok reasoned, its chances for success would improve, and the other public transport operators, whose long-term cooperation in a nationwide system was obviously essential, would be more likely to come on board.
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