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CINBAD keeps an eye on the CERN network
The CINBAD (CERN Investigation of Network Behaviour and Anomaly Detection) project was launched in 2007 as a collaboration between CERN openlab, IT-CS and HP ProCurve Networking. The project's aim is to understand the behaviour of large computer networks in the context of high-performance computing and campus installations such as those at CERN. The goals are to detect traffic anomalies in such systems, perform trend analysis, automatically take counter measures and provide post-mortem analysis facilities.
CERN's network
CERN's campus network has more than 50,000 active user devices interconnected by 10,000 km of cables and fibres, with more than 2500 switches and routers. The potential 4.8 Tbps throughput within the network core and 140 Gbps connectivity to external networks offers countless possibilities to different network applications. The bandwidth of modern networks is growing much faster than the performance of the latest processors. This fact combined with the CERN specific configuration and topology makes network behaviour analysis a very challenging and daunting task.
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The CINBAD project addresses many aspects associated with the CERN network. First, it provides facilities for a better understanding and improved maintenance of the CERN network infrastructure. This includes analysing various network statistics and trends, traffic flows and protocol distributions. Other factors that might have an impact on the current network status or influence its evolution are also studied, such as connectivity, bottleneck and performance issues.
When we have learnt and understood the network behaviour, CINBAD can help to identify various abnormalities and determine their causes. Because there are many factors that can be used to describe the network status, anomaly definition is also very domain specific and includes network infrastructure misuse, violation of a local network security policy and device misconfiguration. In addition, the expected network behaviour never remains static because it can vary with the time of day, the number of users connected and network services deployed. As a consequence, anomalies are not easy to detect.
Network sniffing
To acquire knowledge about the network status and behaviour, CINBAD collects and analyses data from numerous sources. Alarms from different network monitoring systems, logs from network services like Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), user feedback, etc – all of these constitute a solid base of information. A naive approach might be to look at all of the packets flying over the CERN network. However, if we did this we would need to analyse even more data than the LHC could generate. The LHC data are only a subset of the total data crossing via these links.
CINBAD overcomes this issue by applying statistical analysis and using sFlow, a technology for monitoring high-speed switched networks that provides randomly sampled packets from the network traffic. The information that we collect is based on the traffic from around 1000 switches and routers and gives a representative sample of the CERN network traffic with more than 3 Terabytes of data per month. The multistage collection system was designed and implemented in consultation with experts from the LHC experiments and Oracle, to benefit from their data-analysis and storage experience. The system has now been up and running for more than a year (figure 1).
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Top n-list is another form of network summary that might be of interest. Such lists would allow the identification of the most popular application servers, either inside or outside CERN. Although this information might be available on each individual CERN server, CINBAD provides the possibility to collect these statistics for all servers of a given type, whether or not they are centrally managed by the IT Department. This information may be of value to both network engineers and application-server administrators.
These statistics can also be useful for network design and provisioning. The CINBAD project can provide valuable information about the nature of the traffic on the links. These statistics can also be used to detect the trunks with potential bottlenecks. This information can be compared with the service-level agreements that specify the conditions for link usage, enabling appropriate corrective actions to be taken.
With all of these improvements, CINBAD offers a comprehensive system to facilitate day-to-day operations, diagnose network problems and extend our understanding of network evolution and design. The CINBAD team is currently working in close collaboration with IT-CS on a visualization model of this information that is suitable for network operation and troubleshooting.
Security enhancements
Security is another area that benefits from the CINBAD project. The only safe computer is a dead computer, or at least one disconnected from the network (if no-one can get to it, no-one can harm it). Nowadays, we cannot avoid communicating with others and therefore we expose our machine to outside threats. Although CERN centrally managed desktops have up-to-date anti-virus software and firewalls, this does not guarantee that our machines and data are shielded from attacks. These tools are usually designed to detect known patterns (signatures) and there are also other machines (unmanaged desktops, PDAs, etc) connected to the CERN network that might be less protected.
Currently, detailed analysis is only performed at critical points on the network (firewall and gates between network domains). The CINBAD team has been investigating various data-analysis approaches that could overcome this limitation. These studies can be categorized into two main domains: statistical and signature-based analysis. The former depends on detecting deviations from normal network behaviour while the latter uses existing problem signatures and matches them against the current state of the network.
The signature-based approach has numerous practical applications, for example SNORT (an open-source intrusion-detection system). The CINBAD team has successfully ported SNORT and adapted various rules to work with sampled data. It seems to perform well and provides a low false-positive rate. However, the system is blind and can yield false negatives in cases of unknown anomalies.
This problem can be addressed by the statistical approach. Expected network activity can be established by specifying the allowed patterns in certain parts of the network. While this method works well for a DNS or web server that can only be contacted on a given protocol port number, for more general purposes this approach would not scale.
A second approach is to build various network profiles by learning from the past. The selection of robust metrics that are resistant to data randomness plays an important role in characterizing the expected network behaviour. Once these normal profiles are well established, the statistical approach can detect new and unknown anomalies.
The CINBAD project combines the statistical approach with the signature-based analysis to benefit from the synergy of the two techniques. While the latter provides the detection system with a fast and reliable detection rate, the former is used to detect the unknown anomalies and to produce new signatures. The CINBAD team constantly monitors both the campus and internet traffic using this method. This has already led to the identification of various anomalies, e.g. DNS abuse, p2p applications, rogue DHCP servers, worms, trojans, unauthorized wireless base stations, etc. Some of these findings have resulted in refinements to current security policies.
The future
The CINBAD project offers many opportunities to improve CERN's network operation, and it also provides a unique opportunity for the CERN Computer Security Team to identify (and protect against) incidents that might not be seen otherwise. It also enables other groups concerned with varying network applications, such as web services and mail servers, to understand their behaviour.
Useful links
The CINBAD project: http://cern.ch/openlab-cinbad
CERN openlab: http://cern.ch/openlab
About the author
Milosz Hulbój and Ryszard Jurga, IT-CS (CERN openlab)


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The Cal State Northridge softball team (21-10) defeated Pacific 7-5 and Bakersfield 4-2 Sunday in a pair of non-conference contests at Matador Diamond. Freshman Taylor Glover, the Big West Player of the Week, continued her hot play by collecting five hits and five RBIs while extending her hitting streak to 15 games. In the circle, Jordan Sauceda and Daphne Pofek each recorded wins while Pofek nailed down the Bakersfield win for her second career save.
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In the second game of its day, CSUN rallied from an early deficit to defeat the Roadrunners for the second time this weekend.
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A combination of two factors should prompt the district to take a look at relocating Station 1 to a new site at the southwest corner of Post Road and Cedar Avenue. Henrikson told the Board of Fire Commissioners last Thursday.
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Christmas parade rolls through Marshville
Children dived and grabbed for candy as parade participants shouted and waved at the crowd Saturday afternoon during Marshville's Christmas parade.
Many of those lined up along Marshville streets to see the annual event were residents of the town and nearby areas.
Many of the parade participants were local people as well.
The parade began with Marshville Police Chief Carl Webber leading the way in a Marshville police car, which was followed by vehicles carrying community members and members of local organizations and businesses. Cheerleading groups, bands and others could also be found in the parade marching in between the string of parade vehicles.
"It's a good yearly family thing," Janel Griffin, who came out to the parade Saturday, said.
She, along with many others who could be found standing and sitting along town streets to view the event, had attended many times in the past. Some even said they've stood in the same spot year after year to watch the parade.
"It's short and sweet," Marie Collins, another parade attendee said in reference to why she enjoys coming to the town's parade.
This year's parade featured various makes and models of cars, farm equipment and other vehicles as well as appearances by Marshville's town council members, bands and cheerleaders from the area, local Boy and Girl Scout troops, organizations and businesses in and around Marshville and Santa Claus, who for this parade chose to make an appearance on a fire truck from the Beaver Lane Volunteer Fire Department instead of with his usual sleigh and reindeer.
"I think it was longer this year," Nancy Pressley, a regular attendee of the parade, said.
As in past years, she enjoyed all of the parade and especially being able to see some of the local pageant winners in it and their crowns, she said.
"It was good, the kids had fun, we got lots of candy," Jeremy Napier who came to the parade with his family, said.
Katie Coppedge, 10, said candy was one of the things she liked most about the parade.
She and other children and even some adults at the event could be seen walking away at the end with handfuls and bags full of candy they'd gathered when parade participants tossed them into the crowd.
Other parts of the parade people said they enjoyed were the musical performances by the local school bands, seeing horses trot down Marshville's streets and seeing Santa Claus.


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CWG athletes visit Taj Mahal to complete India trip
Sun, Oct 17, 2010 , Press Trust of India
For a number of foreign athletes who participated in the Delhi Commonwealth Games, the visit to India was an opportunity to realise a long-cherished dream --visit to the iconic Taj Mahal.
Kalmadi meets Reddy ahead of GoM meeting on Monday
The beleaguered organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi on Sunday met Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy, who also heads the group of ministers for Commonwealth Games, but what exactly transpired in the closed-door meeting was not known.
No further tax burden on Delhiites due to spending on CWG: CM
Delhiites can breathe easy as Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has ruled out any new taxes to make up for expenses incurred on the Commonwealth Games which are estimated to have cost the nation a whopping Rs 70,000 crore.
Delhi CWG 'denigrated' India's image: Aiyar
Continuing his tirade against the just-concluded Commonwealth Games, former Sports Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar on Sunday said India should have focused on improving the plight of its poor instead of spending thousands of crores on the event which only "denigrated" its image.
Delhi stadiums should be used for academies: Dikshit
The world class stadia built for the Commonwealth Games in the national capital could now be used for training budding sports persons.
Sheila Dikshit: Kalmadi failed to 'win confidence' of people
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 , Press Trust of India
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday said the "suspicion" of corruption in the Commonwealth Games is on the Organising Committee headed by Suresh Kalmadi and welcomed the "instantaneous" probe ordered by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh which would clear the "cobwebs".
30 CWG medalists from Haryana to get Maruti cars
Thirty medalists of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) from Haryana and two others - Saina Nehwal and Sushil Kumar - having connection with the state would get Maruti cars.
Aiyar claims hosting of CWG didn't help Indian athletes
Former Sports Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, arguably the most ardent critic of the just-concluded Commonwealth Games, still thinks India should not have hosted them, claiming that instead of offering more facilities to athletes, sports bodies were focusing on organising events.
After PM, Sonia meets medal winners; keeps Kalmadi away
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday met the Indian medal winners of the Commonwealth Games but controversial Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi was not invited.
CWG over, CAG resumes probe into corruption charges
Fri, Oct 15, 2010 , Press Trust of India
A day after the Commonwealth Games got over, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has resumed its assessment of various projects related to the mega sporting event which were mired in allegations of corruption.
We're now ready for Olympics: Sheila Dikshit
Fri, Oct 15, 2010 , Mid-Day.com
Her fans may say she made the Commonwealth Games a spectacular success, her detractors may blame her for not getting Delhi ready on time for the Games, the press may paint her grey for allowing the Games organisers to create all sorts of problems for Delhiites. But Sheila Dikshit is unruffled.
India's journey from one to 101 medals
Thu, Oct 14, 2010 , Press Trust of India
It all started with a sole bronze in 1934 in the second edition of the Commonwealth Games and now India has finally breached the 100-mark in the medals tally of the event in the latest edition to occupy the second position in the overall standings.
CWG gold medallist Jwala slams BAI president
BAI president V K Verma on Thursday invited wrath of shuttler Jwala Gutta by ignoring her and Ashwini Ponnappa after their gold medal win in the badminton event of the Commonwealth Games.
India create Games history by finishing second in medals tally
The country's competitors came out with flying colours and helped India finish a historic second in the final pecking order with more than 100 medals as the Commonwealth Games, that had a troubled build-up but proceeded smoothly thereafter, came to a close on Thursday.
CWG: 15 Golds courtesy Haryana
Haryana has emerged as a gold mine by contributing 15 out of the 38 top medals India bagged at the Delhi Commonwealth Games and authorities said rewards and incentives to groom budding athletes have borne fruit.
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TOTALLY agree i watched JDS beat carwin in vancouver it was like a kid getting beat up by his dad. I know whoever wins is going to be respectful and thats another reason why i like this fight so much.
Everybody knows Cain has this fight.. respect junior but he'll get outclassed bc he's one dimensional.
juniors one dimensional are you takeing stupid pills no one has ever put dos santos on his back no one has ever put him in trouble his chin is phenominal if cains going into this fight looking for ground and pound and cain stands with junior he will get knocked out who has cain beaten please dont say lesnar cause lesnars a joke hes a wrestler not a fight just cause brock cant fight doens make cain bad ass who else jake o brien? ben rothwell really big nog got knocked out yeah but the case with big nog now and i respect and am a fan but he either really needed that surgery to save his career or hes come to the end of the road because of to many miles, i go by what i said about brock and who has cain beaten?
Stupid pill? I didn't come out of your momma u fool! Has junior fought the likes of Lesnar or Cain, so we shall see Russ Cockin the butt!
Junior has had more fights in the UFC than Cain.. and has won those fights in dominating fashions. Cain is good.. but if he cant take JDS to the ground, he's in trouble. So the bottom line is if this fight goes to the ground, Cain wins by decision, but if it stays standing up too long.. Cain is in big trouble, and i dont see it going to the distance if it stays standing up.
I would say hands down for Cain, but what about the layoff?
hah most of their predictions are the same as mine: "ohhhh damn man… ummm… shit, I don't even know"
LMFAO! My exact prediction!
shut yer hole clown. no one cares what you have to say.
Guys, Cain is a well rounded mixed martial artist. No holes in his game. We have seen his power, awesome legs kicks, devestating ground and pound and crazy take downs. This guy does not get tired. He took down Rothwell over 10 times the first round and was not tired one bit. It was a freaky thing to see. I think he'll have no problem taking Cigano down at all. I dont think we'll see ring rust at all, Cain works too hard. JDS prefers to stand. We dont see a whole lot of take down attempts, leg kicks, and hes a bjj black belt under the Noguiera bros, but we dont see his ground game a whole lot either. Unless Cain gets caught, it's gonna be a long night for JDS.
JDS by boxing or Cain by wrestling
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2009 President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet this afternoon with the U.S. military's senior enlisted advisors at the White House, a senior Defense Department official said.
The armed services' enlisted advisors are the senior noncommissioned officers for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. The president also will greet the Coast Guard's top enlisted leader, spokesman Bryan Whitman told Pentagon reporters today.
Obama is slated to meet with Sergeant Major of the Army Kenneth O. Preston, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Rodney J. McKinley, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Rick D. West, Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Carlton W. Kent and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard Charles W. Bowen.
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Having already been wowed this year by Sony's flagship Full HD TV, the 55W905A, expectations are sky-high for the step-down W805 series. After all, if the 47-inch Sony Bravia KDL-47W805 sat on our test benches can deliver the majority of the W905A's quality at a significantly lower price, then it may very well end up being the smash hit part of Sony's 2013 range.
Its feature sheet certainly looks promising enough, including as it does 3D playback, a variation of the very fetching 'Sense of Quartz' design introduced on the Sony 55W905, Sony's latest SEN online platform and the latest version of Sony's X-Reality Pro video processing engine.
The only possible areas of concern are that the Sony 47W805A doesn't boast the intriguing new Triluminos advanced colour system found on the W905A series, and the use of a passive 3D system rather than an active one.
This makes the Sony 47W805 – priced at £1,299 (around US$2,030 / AU$2,135) – the first passive 3D TV Sony has ever launched.
If you can live without 3D and want to save some money, you could step down to Sony's new W6 series, which still retains the SEN online support, a startlingly slim design and X-Reality processing.
Or if you want to try the Sony 47W805 out against some similar-level rival televisions, your best ports of call would be the slightly more expensive Samsung UE46F7000, with its active 3D and groundbreaking smart TV system, or the Panasonic P50GT60 plasma, with its excellent pictures and brilliantly friendly My Homescreen interface.
Even if you're not into 3D, for anyone who follows the TV world the Sony 47W805's single most intriguing feature is its passive 3D playback. Supported by the inclusion of four passive 3D glasses, this feature is particularly interesting here because it's the first time Sony has offered a passive 3D TV in its range, after years of dedicated support for the active 3D format.
In principle we applaud Sony's willingness to embrace both 3D formats in its 2013 range, on the grounds of offering consumers a 3D choice.
Yet there's a little voice in the back of our mind that can't help but feel slightly concerned about how having to shift to using one of LG's passive 3D panels might have upset the excellent picture balance Sony struck on the W905A series and last year's brilliant Sony HX853 models.
Doing a good job of putting this doubt to bed, though, is the Sony 47W805's retention of Sony's X-Reality Pro video engine. By cunningly comparing incoming sources against a huge installed database of different picture types and scenarios, X-Reality Pro is able to deliver a processing shortcut that should enable it to deliver more accurate results in real time than most – if not all – rival systems.
Obviously the effectiveness of this system depends greatly on the extent of the database and the ability of the processor's parser to correctly and quickly pair an incoming source up with the right database rules.
But these are precisely the areas Sony has most worked on in improving X-Reality Pro from its 2012 iteration. It's also reduced the previous three X-Reality Pro chipsets down to two, to reduce costs and improve performance efficiency.
Also a highlight of the Sony 47W805's feature list is its carriage of the latest Sony Entertainment Network (SEN) online platform. This sensibly focuses on providing plenty of video services, including such heavy hitters as BBC iPlayer, Lovefilm, Netflix, Demand 5, Sky News and Sony's own TV archive and Movies Unlimited services.
There's also a near-bewildering selection of smaller video channels, most of which carry very niche but occasionally still interesting content.
There's no disguising that Samsung and LG have trotted past Sony when it comes to providing A-list video content. Plus, as we'll see in the Usability section of this review, Sony's latest interface has fallen a bit off the pace too.
But Sony's smart TV stuff is nonetheless a very worthwhile addition to the Sony 47W805, and there are enough innovative touches around to show that Sony is still thinking on its feet where smart features concerned.
These touches include an NFC remote control so you can mirror the screens of secondary NFC-supporting devices onto the TV screen; a Fast Zapp option that provides a great way of quickly surfing both broadcast and on-demand listings without disrupting what you're currently watching; and a prettily presented control and content-sharing app for iOS and Android devices.
It's a pity, though, that this app doesn't follow the lead of many rivals this year by supporting second-screen sharing of what's being shown on the TV screen.
The Sony 47W805's multimedia support also extends to photo, video and music playback via DLNA and USB ports, of course, while its apparent commitment to picture quality can be seen in an extensive quote of picture calibration tools, including a (slightly offbeat) colour management system and white balance controls.
The Sony 47W805 carries its decent list of features inside a reasonably attractive body. The television's bezel is a bit wider than most these days, but it's given a welcome dash of panache by a sliver of reflective blue – or a 'Sense of Quartz', to use Sony's marketing jargon.
Also eye catching is a little silver box sitting in the centre of the bottom edge. Dubbed the Intelligence Centre, this houses the TV's processing brain, and rather niftily changes the colour of its light output in response to the source you're watching.
The TV's rear, meanwhile, sports a fulsome suite of connections, including four HDMIs, three USBs, and both LAN and built-in Wi-Fi network options.
The last thing worth covering here is the other ways in which the Sony 47W805 differs from the specifications of its W905 sibling. The main one is its use of an IPS panel design rather than the VA type Sony has used previously. This should result in wider practical viewing angles, though experience suggests it might also result in a reduced contrast performance.
The Sony 47W805 also applies less power to its motion handling, delivering a MotionFlow XR 400 (400Hz) system versus the MotionFlow XR 800 (800Hz) effect on the W9 series.
Picture quality
First impressions of the Sony 47W805 in action are promising. Right away, for instance, your attention is grabbed and held by the screen's potent colour performance, which combines plenty of vibrancy with above average levels of tonal subtlety so that even the trickiest of colour palettes is rendered with genuine high-end finesse.
HD material looks impressively sharp too, as the innate quality of the Full HD screen combines with Sony's clearly on-the-money video processing to ensure you generally lose not one pixel of detail from a Full HD source.
There's a marginal drop-off in clarity over moving objects compared with the brilliant W9 model we've tested, but the Sony 47W805's sharpness and clarity is still strong by the standards of other televisions at the same sort of price level.
We also appreciated the wider viewing angle delivered by the Sony 47W805's panel – especially given the unusually narrow effective viewing angle of the Sony W905 TVs – and were hugely impressed by how well the Sony 47W805's processing system manages to upscale standard definition to its Full HD resolution.
The way it adds sharpness while also reducing source noise – even with heavily compressed standard definition digital broadcasts – really is exceptional, and must surely be down to the efficacy of the latest X-Reality Pro engine.
Popping on a pair of the Sony 47W805's lightweight passive 3D glasses is well worth the effort too. Sony has taken to the passive format like a duck to water, taking full advantage of passive's key advantages of no flicker, no crosstalk and a very natural, clean experience full of credible depth.
Also enhancing the 3D experience is the impressive brightness and colour vibrancy of the 3D images, with the glasses removing scarcely any punch from the image.
Not surprisingly the Sony 47W805 does also suffer from the natural weaknesses of the passive 3D format. For instance, crosstalk double ghosting issues suddenly go from nothing to excessive if you try to watch Sony's screen from a vertical viewing angle of more than around 13 degrees above or below.
There's also slightly less detail and sharpness in the passive 3D image versus active ones, and the filter applied to passive 3D screens can cause a bit of jaggedness around the edges of small or contoured objects.
Another issue is that as the panel runs harder in 3D mode to compensate for the small amount of dimming the 3D glasses can introduce, dark areas look a touch grey and can show small evidence of backlight inconsistency, with ultra-contrasty content.
Overall, though, the Sony 47W805's 3D efforts are comfortably among the most fun and undemanding we've witnessed.
Good though the Sony 47W805's pictures have been so far, the greyness that infuses dark 3D scenes sets a few alarm bells ringing – especially as we didn't witness the same sort of 3D issues with Sony's W9 or HX853 models. So it was with a degree of nervousness that we fired up a few dark 2D movie sequences – and sadly our fears proved at least partially justified.
First, we turned off all the TV's various contrast-boosting tools to get a feel for the panel's natural contrast performance. And the results were disappointing to say the least, as dark sequences appeared behind a really quite high amount of the sort of grey clouding we tend to associate with low-contrast TVs.
This issue stands in particularly stark contrast to the ground-breakingly good black levels witnessed on Sony's own W9 and HX853 models, and must be a direct result of the shift to an LG 3D panel and the use of a less sophisticated edge LED dimming system.
You can, thankfully, greatly increase the TV's black level response by calling into play a provided Advanced Contrast Enhancer feature. In fact, with this in play black levels go from being below average to being very good. However, there's an unfortunate price to pay for this increased black level: distracting brightness shifting.
The amount of backlight manipulation the TV has to undertake to try to disguise the lack of native contrast in its panel is just too extreme – even if you stick with a relatively low-powered Advanced Contrast Enhancer setting – so that you can see the image's brightness levels jumping around in response to subtle shifts in the brightness of the image content.
Another side effect of how hard the dynamic contrast system has to work to fight the screen's native lack of contrast is a loss of shadow detail in dark parts of the image.
We tried every trick we could think of to try to find some miracle setting combination that might enable us to find a perfect balance between the Sony 47W805's various contrast enhancement tools. But we never stumbled upon a combination that enabled us to feel truly immersed in or convinced by dark scenes.
Usability, sound and value
There's good news and bad news to report here. Kicking off the good news, Sony's new main TV menu design is a big improvement over the tedious, inscrutable double axis system found on last year's Sony models. It makes good use of high-res graphics, and is much better organised.
Also a great idea is the Fast Zapp feature that enables you to quickly scour both the digital TV EPG and some of the supported streaming services without having to interrupt your current viewing.
The television's support for NFC linkage to NFC-compatible secondary devices is well implemented too, and the simplicity with which you can mirror the screen of portable devices on the TV screen is a great touch.
The control/content sharing app Sony provides for iOS and Android devices is one of the best looking such apps we've seen too, even if its functionality isn't quite as extensive as we'd like.
The Sony 47W805's interface does falter a bit when it comes to handling SEN content, though. It presents all the content as a simple list of icons, with no means of organising them by genre or type, or organising them into an order that suits your own personal needs. This means you could potentially have to scroll down row after row of app icons before you get to a specific one you want to access.
Sound quality
As with its pictures, the Sony 47W805's sound is a bigger step down from Sony's W9 series than we'd hoped it would be. The excellent long-duct speaker design of the W9 TVs has gone, and taken with it the impressively potent bass levels and open mid-range sound we liked so much.
The result is that while the Sony 47W805 sounds absolutely fine with relatively undemanding news or daytime TV fodder, it can start to sound a bit thin and harsh when the audio going gets tough.
It's not entirely fair to compare the Sony 47W805's audio with that of the equivalent W905 model, though, given the fairly large price gap between the two.
And actually, compared with many similarly priced rivals the Sony 47W805 sounds decent enough. It's not outstanding, but certainly more than acceptable.
This is a hard one to call. The Sony 47W805 scores well on features for its money, with its 3D, smart TV and expansive online video support. It also looks like a premium model aesthetically.
Its performance sparkles with bright, colourful content too. But if you're prone to dimming the lights and closing the curtains from time to time for a spot of serious film viewing, you might well feel as if you wanted to be getting a bit more dark-scene consistency for your £1,300 (around US$2,030 / AU$2,135).
The Sony 47W805 is a seriously promising TV. Its design is cute, its specification list looks strong with its video-friendly online TV service and potent picture processing, and most important of all it shares a stable with Sony's imperious W905 models.
We have no doubt, either, that many users – especially families – will feel drawn to the television because it's Sony's first to use passive rather than active 3D technology.
However, there's a slight lack of sophistication about the interface employed for accessing the Sony 47W805's multimedia services, and more alarmingly the TV's mostly robust picture quality is let down by a number of difficulties when it comes to showing dark scenes convincingly.
We liked
The Sony 47W805 is a pretty TV thanks to its Sense of Quartz design, and it's well connected with its four HDMIs, three USBs and built-in Wi-Fi. Bright content looks punchy and crisp, and the set's online services include an impressive amount of video sources.
We disliked
The interface for accessing Sony's online content is a bit basic by this year's standards, and the TV's contrast performance is a real disappointment compared with the glories found elsewhere in Sony's range.
Final verdict
Excitement levels were extremely high for the Sony 47W805, since we fully expected it to deliver much of the performance quality of Sony's W905 series for a much lower price.
However, while it retains many of that television's features bar Triluminos, it doesn't deliver anywhere near as much picture or sound quality. In fact its contrast performance is so average it's hard to believe it's coming from the same brand as the Sony 55W905.
We guess this flawed contrast issue might not be too big a deal if you don't tend to be the sort of person who watches films seriously. But if you do consider yourself a bit of a movie buff, we're pretty confident that the Sony 47W805's difficulties with dark scenes will annoy you from time to time.
Also consider
A great alternative to the Sony 47W805 would be Panasonic's P50GT60. This TV costs £100 or so more, but as well as giving you an extra three inches of picture the quality of that picture is also sensational, especially when it comes to contrast – the thing the Sony 47W805 struggles with the most.
Panasonic's new My HomeScreen smart TV interface is a work of personalised genius too, though Panasonic's online platform isn't nearly as video-rich as Sony's.
Another option would be Samsung's UE46F7000. This is a bit costlier and an inch smaller, but its picture quality is outstanding, and its smart interface is in a different league.
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When I see all the options for controls in BF4 and the amount of buttons on controllers going back to the beginning of Xbox 360 and PS3 well I should never have gotten into console gaming again. I made a mistake and the money I spent on consoles would have been better spent on pc hardware.
Just saying PC vs Console for FPS there simply no competition, I cannot for the life in me use a controller to play FPS Online, I can live with it on SP, but for MP is just awful, its no where has accurate has the keyboard and mouse, also BF4 maxed out at 1600p on a IPS Monitor its just O___O. Still getting a PS4 tho for those exclusives....
what is danny doing there? go back to London!!
@404FredNotFound In regards to PC vs console for FPS I admire the people that can use dual analog controllers and dominate BF4 and games like that on console. I wish I was that good.
One thing about kb + mouse and controllers and gaming is that I want to see kb + mouse only servers and controller only servers. PC or console I do not want to see people playing together with different controls unless it says say mixed controls server.
@MateykoSlam Where the F... have you been.. Danny is moving to the US.. i want him back to Europe :(
@devilzzzwin @404FredNotFound Yeah I can't manage controllers for first person shooters either. I never gave forced myself to really try for long periods of time, but I imagine I would never get the hang of it. I get slaughtered bad enough on PC though, being too slow for modern shooters.
@Hjindee @MateykoSlam Didn't Danny or someone mention at some point (in a video, maybe during the Extra Life marathon?) that he would be going back in a few years?


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Monday, August 20, 2012
The Woodland offensive and defensive lines return nearly fully intact this season.
Woodland returns all but two starters from an offense that put up some serious points during the 2011 campaign.
The Wolverines finished at 7-4 last season after dominating every team in its region except Hanahan, which won the Region 6-AA crown. This season 31 of the 42 players on Woodlands roster are returning varsity lettermen so second-year coach Mathis Burnette is optimistic.
We feel we should make a nice run and that this may be our year, Burnette said. We lost one offensive lineman and a slot receiver but the rest of our offensive starters are back. Weve had a whole year to game plan with them and we know we have big play potential, but we do need to be a little more physical.
Junior Patrick Sheppard returns at quarterback and presents a dual threat. Sophomore Drake Knight provides good depth at the position.
Wide receiver Chris Gaddist is another key skill player. Burnette says if he and left tackle Michael Barnett (6-4, 225) play up to their potential the Wolverines attack will be hard to stop.
Dakeem Hanton comes in as the new slot receiver. While it is not yet known if he will be able to do all the things his predecessor did, he brings better size to the position. The other new member of the offense is guard Avery Thompson (6-4, 260). What the freshman lacks in experience, he makes up for in size.
Other players listed as starters on that side of the ball are wide receiver Michael Delee, tight end Eric Carn, running back Jari Smith, center Nick Muckenfuss (5-11, 220), guard Ben Mays (6-1, 230) and tackle James Gaddist (5-11,220).
The Wolverine defense also has a lot of experience.
I feel our defense will stand up, Burnette said. We dont have the biggest group of guys, but man do they fly to the football. Plus, we can lock up man-to-man and that allows us to do a lot of good things.
The defense will be anchored by the secondary. Senior safety Rameak Smith returns to play center field for the unit. Senior Laquan White returns as a shutdown cornerback and linebackers Daquan Bolden and Michael Wamer also bring experience and leadership to the defense.
Others expected to contribute defensively include linebacker Ryan Kinsey, Corner Juwan Green, safety Roderick Britt, linebacker Zounce Simmons and linemen Mays, Barnett, Kyle Nettles and James Gaddist.
The Wolverines have a new kicker this season, but their punter returns. The team should be strong when it comes to kick returns considering Wamer returned seven kicks for touchdowns last season.
We have our most experienced team ever, Burnette said. If we just handle our assignments, there is no reason we cant do better than we did last year.
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Inthakhin Festival
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Address: Chang Moi, Muang Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai 50000 Thailand See map
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This famous Thai festival, peculiar to Chiang Mai, is held for six days from the waning of the moon during the sixth lunar month. It is held to celebrate and pay respect to the city pillar , which will hopefully bring rain and encourage prosperity for the city and its citizens.
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America's National Intelligence Strategy
by J. R. Nyquist, Global Analyst. November 20, 2009
Last August The National Intelligence Strategy of the United States of America was published with a foreword signed by the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair (formerly an admiral). The report is a typical specimen of its kind: replete with trendy expressions, political correctness, and the dull repetition of commonplace managerial themes. As outlined, the strategy appeals to "community" and "partnership," as well as "sharing" and "streamlining." Here we find those buzz words most guaranteed to glaze the eye and muddle the brain. words like "integrated," "diversity" and "synergies" are given added poignancy by the addition of "new" and "improved." In general, the text is something between a self-help book for spies and a detergent billboard.
So how does America's intelligence strategy deal with Russia's massive and powerful covert machinery? Blair's report sees Russia as a "partner," especially with regard to "initiatives such as securing fissile material and combating nuclear terrorism...." The report seems utterly oblivious to Russia's longstanding support for terrorism as well as nuclear proliferation (see Iran and North Korea). The chief danger from Russia, according to this report, is that Russia "may continue to seek avenues for reasserting power and influence in ways that complicate U.S. interests." The report also downplays the threat from China, which is seen as sharing "many interests with the United States." China is merely a problem because its diplomacy is focused on natural resources and military modernization. But this merely makes China a more "complex global challenge."
There is one instance of a heartbeat in the text, where we read: "Violent extremist groups are planning to use terrorism – including the possible use of nuclear weapons or devices if they can acquire them – to attack the United States. Working in a number of regions, these groups aim to derail the rule of law, erode societal order, attack U.S. strategic partners, and otherwise challenge U.S. interests worldwide." The reader is thereby shocked to life by a striking statement, only to slump down in the next and subsequent paragraphs. The aforementioned "extremists" are not named. Their cause remains a mystery. The report moves on to discuss global warming and the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak, though neither represents an intelligence challenge (unless the Russians, Iranians or Chinese are behind these phenomena).
As outlined in the report, America's intelligence strategy has four goals: (1) "Enable wise national security policies by continuously monitoring and assessing the international security environment to warn policymakers of threats and inform them of opportunities." (2) "Support effective national security action." (3) "Deliver balanced and improving capabilities that leverage the diversity of the Community's unique competencies and evolve to support new missions and operating concepts." (4) "Operate as a single integrated team, employing collaborative teams that leverage the full range of IC [intelligence community] capabilities...."
The report says: "We must identify the gaps in our knowledge on the Nation's highest priorities to focus analysis, drive collection strategies, and produce deep insight. We must continuously review and adjust Community analytic resources, capabilities, tradecraft, and performance to ensure proper coverage of strategic analytic priorities. Expanded use of techniques such as red-teaming can help ensure quality and integrity in analytic products, and potentially produce fresh insights into our toughest challenges."
Yes, of course. It is a profound national intelligence strategy (indeed!) to recognize that we "must ... produce deep insight," or that we "can help ... produce fresh insights...." How will this be done, exactly? Perhaps Dennis Blair should procure a megaphone and lead a troop of cheerleaders through the bowels of the intelligence community. In this way, the former admiral, once noted for attempting to water ski behind the guided missile destroyer he was commanding, can urge his staff toward those profundities he has so carefully eschewed.
I cannot help but prefer the more direct, precise, and intelligible performance of the late Allen Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1953-61. He made mistakes, of course, but his language was direct and his strategy was clear because he understood his enemy's strategy. In a book titled The Craft of Intelligence, Dulles wrote: "A major part of the strategy of the Communists in the Cold War today is the secret penetration of free states. The means they use, the target countries they select and the soft areas in these targets are concealed as long as possible. They exploit secret weaknesses and vulnerabilities of opportunity and, in particular, endeavor to penetrate the military and security forces of the country under clandestine attack."
According to Dulles, this was the most serious strategic issue faced by America's intelligence strategists. "The subversion campaigns of Communism generally start out using secret techniques and a secret apparatus," wrote Dulles. "It is against them that our intelligence assets must be marshaled in good time and used...." Dulles listed various countries taken over by the Communists through subversion. He then asked a key question: "What are we to do about these secret, underground creeping techniques such as were used to take over Czechoslovakia in 1948 and Cuba in recent years under the cloak of a Castro? Because Castro in one of his rambling and incoherent speeches has boasted about early Marxist views, the hindsight specialists are now saying that this should have been recognized years ago and action taken. Exactly what action, they do not specify except for those who advocate open military intervention. But thousands of the ablest Cubans, including political leaders, businessmen and the military, who worked hard to put Castro in and were risking their lives and futures to do so, did not suspect that they were installing a Communist regime. Today most of them are in exile or in jail."
Here is America's strategic intelligence problem, clearly and ably set forth by one of America's leading spymasters. It is a far cry, indeed, from the slop served up in the 2009 National Intelligence Strategy of the United States of America. Dulles died more than four decades ago; but if anyone thinks that the basic strategic challenge of American intelligence is not the same as that described by Dulles, they are seriously mistaken. Sometime in the past we turned from the realities that Dulles outlined, and our intelligence strategy went off track. "This country and our allies have a choice," Dulles wrote. "We can either organize to meet the Communist program of subversion and vigorously oppose it as it insinuates itself into the governments and free institutions of countries unable to meet the danger alone, or we can supinely stand aside...."
I believe the choice was made for us long ago, and the text of National Intelligence Director Blair is merely one exhibit (out of many) that proves the point. I am left to wonder what is more egregious in Blair's production: the nugatory language which impresses the shallow-pated bureaucratic numskull, or that the word "strategy" is appended to something that crawled out from under the boilerplate of a management seminar.
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PRINCETON, N.J. - Melissa Bourdon (Ile Bizard, Quebec), a freshman goaltender on the University of New Hampshire women's ice hockey team, turned aside all 28 shots she faced to shut out Princeton University in her collegiate debut, a 3-0 UNH victory Saturday afternoon at Hobey Baker Rink.
UNH, ranked No. 9 in the nation, improved to 4-2-1 overall and is 1-0-1 in Women's Hockey East. Princeton is now 3-2-0 (0-0-0 ECAC).
Bourdon, who became eligible to play Nov. 10, recorded 14 of her 28 saves in the second period. She also withstood a span of 1:27 late in the third period in which the Tigers pulled their goalie, Megan Van Beusekom (28 saves), in favor of an extra skater.
The teams skated to a scoreless tie through the first two periods and midway through the final frame before Martine Garland (Toronto, Ont.) gave the Wildcats a 1-0 lead at 14:11 on her first collegiate point - a goal on a shot from the high slot. Stephanie Jones (Kimberley, B.C.) recorded her team-leading eighth point with an assist.
Jaime VanMassenhove (Alpena, Mich.) helped secure the victory with a pair of tallies in the final minute. Her first was an empty-net goal with 44 seconds to play, then VanMassenhove pushed the lead to 3-0 with a power-play goal at 19:59. The two goals is a career high for VanMassenhove, who was shifted from defenseman to forward - the position she played her first three years as a Wildcat - last weekend.
Debbie Bernhard (Acton, Mass.) recorded a career-high two assists as she set up both of VanMassenhove's tallies. Kristen Thomas (Wilmington, Mass.) was credited with an assist on the power-play goal.
New Hampshire returns to action Nov. 16 (2 p.m.) at Yale University. The next Wildcat home game is Nov. 20 vs. Northeastern University. Game time at the Whittemore Center is 7 p.m.


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Running backs Peterson, Lynch carry major loads
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WSU's defense starts to show its bite
Nov. 1, 2012 in Sports PULLMAN – The players gathered at the coach's house, some of them dressed in Halloween garb. Darren Markle won best costume. He came as himself, wearing a body-building outfit. 1
Last-minute election push is on
Nov. 1, 2012 in City With five days left until Election Day, campaigns are shifting their focus from policy arguments to pleas for action. Candidates, meanwhile, are crisscrossing the state to make their final pitches. 5
Mt. Spokane girls soccer moves to state
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Chiefs will play Red Deer without leading scorer
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Murphy makes most of shot with Eastern
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Spokane selects four warming shelter sites
Nov. 1, 2012 in City Spokane will open four temporary shelters for the homeless during the coldest winter nights.
The Sandy 15? Superstorm comfort-eating on menu
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Otter steps forward in latest school reform ad
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Spokane's Mike Redmond to manage Florida Marlins
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Robbers target South Hill coffee shop
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Tacoma police arrest candy muggers
Nov. 1, 2012 in News, Region Police say six teens wearing blue bandanas robbed children and adults in six armed holdups on Halloween in Tacoma. 5
Proposed city budget contains some raises
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NYC mayor big donor in Idaho vote
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Northeast faces slow recovery
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Winds stir up ash from 1912 eruption
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Smugglers' SUV gets stuck on fence
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In brief: Air Force Academy site of brawl, 27 hurt
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Treasury warns U.S. nearing its debt ceiling
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Social secretary during Kennedy White House dies
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